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Fighting 21st Century Fascism

Louis A. Ruprecht

Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. is William M. Suttles Chair of Religious Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is the author of  seven books, most recently: JJ Winckelmann andd the Vatican’s First Profane Museum (Palgrave, 2011).

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Farewell, Mr. Bush

The final legacy of the second Bush presidency is the profound sense of a nation and its civic institutions set morally adrift.
Louis A. Ruprecht
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Pakistan and Iran, a War on Two Fronts

Why did Bush not do more for peace during his failed presidency? Because someone is always lobbing a rocket or detonating a bomb, and this invalidates any and every gesture toward peace, in his simple view.
Louis A. Ruprecht
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The Feds: Gamblers And Addicts

How to fix the mess we’ve gotten ourselves into? With more of what got us here. More debt? More money. Where’s it coming from? As near as I can tell, we’re simply ordering the mints to print more of it.
Louis A. Ruprecht
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