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U.S. policy always defaults to sanctions and threats whenever unrest emerges in Iran. That's exactly the wrong idea

The shocking abuse of police power at UC-Davis is important precisely because it is not aberrational

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The public intellectual confuses religion for the religious, and nonbelievers would be unwise to follow his example

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