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Archive: Aug 2007

Mises on the Struggle for Freedom as a Struggle Against Those in Power

It is a double-edged makeshift to entrust an individual or a group of individuals with the authority to resort to violence. The enticement implied is too tempting for a human…

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Archive Highlights: Rupert Murdoch

“Readers of The Journal May Be Wary of Murdoch, but Advertising Executives Are Not,” The New York Times, August 1, 2007: “It’s just been a dark day,” said Ryan Chittum,…

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Archive Highlights: The Wall Street Journal

“Exclusive: Rupert Murdoch Speaks,” Time, July 28, 2007: The owner-in-waiting will eventually want to see some [changes], starting on Page One. He has little taste for the quirky “A-head” stories…

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A Very Republican Justice: Judge Mark Everett Fuller, Rep. Terry Everett, and others

The legal career of Alabama Judge Mark Everett Fuller, who presided over the conviction and sentencing of former Governor Don Siegelman, has always been linked to the Republican party. Fuller…

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The Ongoing Medicalization of Torture

On July 20, George Bush signed an executive order that clarified certain aspects of what his administration has come to call “enhanced interrogation techniques.” It was an extraordinarily detailed document…

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The Drug-Enhanced Justice of Alberto Gonzales

Today’s Washington Post contains another in the now seemingly endless number of installments portraying the quality of justice that the Bush Justice Department deals out to its corporate sponsors. A…

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Brentano, Death and the Dilemma of Romantic Despair

I have just posted an original translation of a major poem by the early German Romanticist Clemens Brentano. He is not a well-known figure, either in Germany or abroad. But…

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Brentano’s ‘A Servant’s Springtime Cry from the Deep’

Master, without your compassion I must despair in the abyss Do you not want to carry me With strong arms back to the light? With each year your goodness Reaches…

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Hawthorne on the Power of Truth

Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works. Not to be deficient in this particular, the author has provided…

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