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How Bill Clinton, Ira Magaziner, and a team of management consultants are creating new markets, reinventing philanthropy—and trying to save the world The Atlantic | October 2007 HE IS a business consultant, seemingly typical of the breed. Height and build average, hair a graying brown, age 51. His name is Stephen Crolius, and he has…
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New York Times Book Review | October 7, 2007 THE FUTURE OF CONSERVATISM: Conflict and Consensus in the Post-Reagan Era. Edited by Charles W. Dunn. ISI Books. Paper, $15. DEMOCRATIC CAPITALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS. By Brian C. Anderson. ISI Books. $25. BEFORE there was a Heritage Foundation or a Federalist Society, or a Cato or Claremont or…
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The Atlantic | July/August 2007 THE presidential campaign is under way. You may have noticed. It has been under way for months. And months. You may have noticed that, too. By the end of the first quarter of 2007, with the election still the better part of two years away, the candidates had already raised…
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Democracy Journal | Summer 2007 Review of The Future of Marriage, by David Blankenhorn (Encounter Books, 2007) WHEN I came out with a book making the case for same-sex marriage a few years ago, I expected to spend time selling gay marriage to straight people and marriage to gay people. The surprise was how much time I…
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The Atlantic | April 2007 MITT Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts and a 2008 Republican presidential candidate, is a thoughtful politician, for a politician. So it was not surprising to find him recently debating one of the country’s core conundrums. It was a little surprising, though, to find him debating himself. Romney believes abortion is…
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National Journal | April 14, 2007 DWIGHT EISENHOWER, for all his rambling amiability, was capable of vehemence. He showed it memorably at a news conference on August 11, 1954. Ray L. Scherer of NBC asked him about “increasing suggestions that we should embark on a preventive war with the Communist world, some of these suggestions…
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National Journal | March 13, 2007 IN October, British Prime Minister Tony Blair called for “radical international measures” to curtail greenhouse-gas emissions, and fast. “We can’t wait the five years it took to negotiate Kyoto,” he said. Apparently, 2012 is too late. In hopes of taking stronger steps, however, many U.S. environmentalists want to defer…
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The Atlantic | December 2006 OVER coffee not long ago, a European diplomat, then completing his five-year tour in Washington, reflected on anti-Americanism. No, he said, it is nothing new. The European left, in particular, has indulged in it for years. But today? Today, he sighed, is different. Since the Iraq War, mistrust of America…
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The Atlantic | November 2006 MICHAEL Mateas is the sort of person who once built an artificially intelligent(ish) robot houseplant that monitored your e-mail and changed shape to reflect the mood of what it read—if that sort of person can be said to be a sort. This was in 1998, when Mateas was a doctoral student…
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The Atlantic | October 2006 HISTORY judges good presidents by what they do, bad ones by how long they take to undo. Although history hasn’t yet caught up with President George W. Bush, midterm elections are about to—and those are often a referendum on presidential performance. Now is therefore as good a time as any…