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Political ethics

On the outside, cashing in. Michael Deaver and all the president’s salesmen

by Eric Alterman,

A republic of souls. Puritanism and the American presidency

by Richard Sennett,

Fraternalist manifesto

by Christopher Lasch,

Readings

Drawn by Michael Heath,

Reagan’s crackpot moralism

by Alan Wolfe,

Post-post-Watergate morality

by Richard Cohen,

The Nixon era returns

There’s no shame anymore

by Robert M. Kaus,

Influence peddlers used to deny that they were selling their connections. Now they brag about it

Oiling the machine

by Jonathan Kwitny,

The education of Alfonse D'Amato

Moral disarmament

by Harper’s Staff,

The persecution and character assassination of Howard (Bo) Callaway as performed by inmates of the U.S. Senate under the auspices of the Democratic Party

by Jim Hougan,

Chafed elbows

by David Leo Lawrence,

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