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Weekly News Roundup - 7/26/24
A historic month brings us to the brink of a competitive three-month presidential campaign // Netanyahu in DC // The Paris Olympics begin!
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Jon Ward
It's easy to be right, but hard to be wise
"The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right." - Learned Hand
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Moderates Keep Fighting & Don't Look for the Easy Way Out, with Aurelian Craiutu
"We see around us a thirst for simplicity, for panacea, for one size fits all solutions ... We need to find a way to live in the complexity of the world…
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Why I'm Reading Why Not Moderation? by Aurelian Craiutu
Moderation is a "fighting creed" that requires courage and strength, and not everyone has what it takes
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Why We Love Wilco (and live music)
Some vacation reflections on the Solid Sound festival
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June 2024

Resurrecting Republicanism
It's not about the political party. It's about the ethic of working for the common good.
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What Is Unity?
"Unity does not mean thinking alike. Unity means acting together," Yuval Levin writes in his new book.
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"Peace, but not quiet." That's what our constitutional system was designed to bring us, argues Yuval Levin in his new book AMERICAN COVENANT
"This is a book written by a middle child. I don't deny that. That's very much what I bring to the table, and I think that this is a moment when we need…
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May 2024

The Haunting Memory of Martin Luther King Jr.
He is not a "plaster saint"
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Looking closer at the "valley moments" of history
After Selma and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, came the Meredith March, Chicago and Grenada, MS
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After Selma ...
The story of 1966, a year of backlash against the Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Why I am Reading "At Canaan's Edge," by Taylor Branch
My first post on Branch's seminal third book on Martin Luther King, Jr, the civil rights movement, and why reading history is so important
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