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A tragic fluke or epic battle?
By Scott Shane Sun Staff What do we make of the willingness of 19 young Muslim men to sacrifice their lives to kill 7,000 Americans they didn't know? Is it a tragic fluke, a final shudder of an old enmity at "the end of history"? Or is it the first...Tags: Mohammad Khatami, Culture, History, Yasser Arafat, Arts
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Shifting US foreign policy reflective ofor>Cal Thomview
William PfaffPARIS -- Counterinsurgency is out. Drones, assassination teams, targeted killings and special forces are in. A New York Times report on May 27 described the "existential debate" going on inside the faculty at West Point, the national military academy....Tags: War in Afghanistan (2001-present), Central Intelligence Agency, Nazi Party, Afghanistan, NATO
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A citizen's required reading for July 4: The Declaration of Independence
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Book review: 'A World Without Islam'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesA World Without Islam Graham Fuller Little, Brown: 336 pp., $25.99 One of the sadder consequences of the near decade of war and violence that has followed the attacks of 9/11 is that so many people are convinced that we are in a clash of...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Defense, National Security, Civil Unrest, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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A citizen's required reading for July 4th: The Declaration of Independence (with music)
Top of the TicketAfter all these years do you really know what it says? And a striking special video of the National Anthem by a loyal Ticket reader.... -
'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe' by Christopher Caldwell
When an author with Christopher Caldwell's impeccable conservative credentials glosses Edmund Burke in his book's title, it's a safe bet that he's engaged a question whose implications he believes are absolutely fundamental.
Burke's great masterpiece...Tags: Culture, History, Benedict XVI, Europe, London (England)
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The unspeakable American culture
In a recent speech at the National Press Club, Katie Couric expressed somber disapproval of the jingoistic excesses after 9/11. Among the things that vexed her: "The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying 'we' when referring to the...Tags: George W. Bush, Citizens Initiative and Recall, Culture, United Nations, John Kerry
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Scholars
Scholars Andrés Henestrosa Morales, 101; Mexican writer who promoted Zapotec culture (Jan. 10) Melville C. Branch, 94; USC professor, urban planning expert (Feb. 11) J. Kent Clark, 90; longtime Caltech English literature professor, biographer and...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Culture, History, French Literature, Death
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Kennan, Huntington and the power of intellectuals
The conventional wisdom is that politicians aren't influenced by what the late George Wallace called "pointy-headed intellectuals." The recent death of Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington is a reminder that the opposite is often the case....Tags: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Culture, United Nations, Government
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Samuel P. Huntington dies at 81; author of 'The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order'
Times Wire ServicesSamuel P. Huntington, a political scientist who argued that future conflicts would have their seeds in culture and religion rather than friction between nations, has died, Harvard University announced Saturday. He was 81. Huntington died Wednesday at a...Tags: Culture, National Government, U.S. Army, New York City, Civil Unrest
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The Declaration of Independence, reloaded
When you've spent as many hours unpacking the text of the nation's founding documents as we have, you start to notice how many concerns that were pressing when the United States was founded remain unresolved today. This is obvious with the U.S....Tags: England, History, Carrollton, Benjamin Harrison, Charles Carroll
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When in the Course of human events...
The Swampby Jim Tankersley France celebrates its independence day on the anniversary of a citizen uprising at a prison; Canada's comes on the anniversary of a legislative act recognizing its self-governance. In the United States, we celebrate a "Dear John"......Tags: History, Carrollton, National Government, Benjamin Harrison, Charles Carroll
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