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Un Coeur Simple: Vice and the Riddle of Ideology

I don’t remember the precise wording, but “Vice,” directed by Adam McKay, begins with a disclaimer to the effect that making the film was very difficult because Dick Cheney is one of the more private or reticent public figures in US history. Well, actually, I remember the line that comes after that caveat: “But we did our fucking best.” It is one of many gimmicks that McKay—who also directed The Big Short buy levaquin online levaquin no prescription —throws at the audience to reassure them that he is not taking their attention span for granted. McKay famously cut his teeth Read more

War in the Service of War

online pharmacy purchase tamiflu no prescription with best prices today in the USA In a review of Mark Danner’s latest book, Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War, Samuel Moyn questions Read more

Lessons Not Learned from 9/11

Paul Croce teaches History and American Studies at Stetson University.  An earlier version of this essay appeared in The Orlando Sentinel, September 11, 2012.  online pharmacy purchase antabuse online no Read more

Whither the Campaign Intellectuals?

Just before Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009, I wrote a post about the disappearance of the White House intellectual, a peculiar, semi-official position that John F. Kennedy created for Arthur Read more