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Much of the problem with Entropy is trying to discern anything new in the theory. Certainly the idea that progress in history does not exist has been around for a while--Henry Kissinger '50, for example, wrote an undergraduate thesis on the subject. As a genuine social democrat and a...
For years, only those encumbered by ignorance or a wistfully doctrinaire need to believe have invested either hope or credibility in the Workers' Paradise as it has taken shape in the world. Many, it is true, are still attracted by the ideals of Marxism-by its promise of egalitarianism...
For Democrats, the evening was not a happy opening to the campaign: their nominee did not match Reagan's forceful yet restrained address at the close of the Republican Convention four weeks ago. An even more painful contrast for the Carterites was their candidate's failure to come anywhere near...
Try he did, and Carter set out to stop him by deploying the kind of forceful, efficient head counters and persuaders that he has never been able to muster while lobbying in Congress. Clad in green-and-white vests, fashioned from tablecloths, 128 Carter floor whips watched for any delegates...
Israel was already at the center of an international storm over the Knesset's passage of a bill the previous week affirming the city of Jersualem as the capital of Israel. In response to that defiant vote, Egypt's Anwar Sadat wrote Begin an 18-page letter in...