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Luke Nathan Phillips

Luke Nathan Phillips is Publius Fellow for Public Discourse at Braver Angels.
Articles by Luke Nathan Phillips

Lives of the New Dealers

There is no grander age of unelected heroes in American government and society at large than the early twentieth century. And in all the epic decades of the early twentieth century, there is no time more focused, more electric, more clear in its implications for the possibility of public action, than the gloomy crisis years of the 1930s and ’40s—years dominated on the American home front by that motley gallery of talented, sympathetic misfits from everywhere and nowhere called the “New Dealers”…

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Robert Kaplan’s World

In 1994, five years after the Berlin Wall fell, American businessmen, journalists, and foreign policy intellectuals generally remained under the trance of the “end of history.” Events still shook enlightened consciences—the Rwandan genocide, the Yugoslav Wars, the first World Trade Center attack—but for the most part, the end of the Cold War brought with it a newfound faith in the power of international institutions to resolve these conflicts. Faith in the inexorable trends of democratization and globalization was high. In stepped Robert D. Kaplan…

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