Sublime

Without criticizing Hobbes’s metaphysics or ethics, there are two points to make against him. The first is that he always considers the national interest as a whole, and assumes, tacitly, that the major interests of all citizens are the same. He does not realize the importance of the clash between different classes, which Marx makes the chief cause

Conner stressed the war’s “one great lesson”—which he feared was “soon to be forgotten” as the nation returned to peace: “The unprepared nation is helpless in a great war unless it can depend upon other nations to shield it while it prepares,” a lesson he thought had been borne out by “every scrap of the history” of the AEF.7 The highlight of Conne

Clinton had announced plans to create a health care system that provided coverage to all Americans. It would be a monumental political undertaking. Over the prior six decades, universal health care had emerged as the white whale of the liberal movement—an elusive, tantalizing chance to achieve the New Deal’s final piece of unfinished business. Fran

“There is a historical philosophy that sees war as man’s highest destiny,” he said. He was referring to the Nazis and Arabs. “This philosophy is an abomination to Judaism as we understand it and as it was understood, I believe, by the prophets and sages of the Bible.” At a Cabinet meeting he remarked, “An army is the most dangerous thing there is i

He knew that the best defense against invading roads that were looking for budding branches to gobble up was a well-built system that could outcompete any interloper with rock-bottom rates.

The PCC’s founders were influenced by the Mini-Manual of Urban Guerrillas written by Carlos Marighella, the Marxist-Leninist who founded the National Action for Liberation guerrilla group in the late 1960s. During the 1990s and early 2000s the PCC started to dominate drugs distribution and sank deep roots in prisons and poor communities. Members we