Michael Gerson
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Political systems needs to accommodate human complexitySep 19, 2017 1:00 am - In his prescient science-fiction novel "The Diamond Age," Neal Stephenson describes a post-national world in which people organize themselves into affinity groups called...
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Feinstein is off-base to demand that judges be secularistsSep 15, 2017 1:00 am - Some political tastes linger in the mouth like spoiled milk or a bad oyster. Consider the shockingly shabby treatment recently accorded by some Democratic members of th...
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The Dreamers deserve compassion -- and a legislative compromiseSep 10, 2017 1:00 am - By Michael Gerson "The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason." - T.S. Eliot We have every reason to assume the worst when i...
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Arizona's 'Flake primary' will reveal much about Trump's political influenceSep 05, 2017 1:00 am - PHOENIX - We know that Donald Trump is a virtuoso at the politics of resentment. But does he lead a movement? That is the question to be tested in next year's Republica...
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With the Arpaio pardon, Trump deepened the moral damage to the GOPAug 29, 2017 1:00 am - Repetition is the enemy of maintaining proper distinctions. It is a short road from being serially outraged to being slightly bored to being completely inured. Thus man...
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'America First' is a gathering moral and strategic disasterAug 23, 2017 1:00 am - We are seeing the sad effects of President Trump's renunciation of moral leadership on America politics and culture - the waning of civility, idealism and respect, and t...
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How can you stand by a president with no heart?Aug 18, 2017 1:00 am - By Michael Gerson "O mother / What shall I cry? / We demand a committee, a representative / committee, a committee of investigation / RESIGN RESIGN RESIGN" - T.S. Eliot...
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For wisdom on North Korea, Trump should pay a visit to the White House libraryAug 13, 2017 1:00 am - Donald Trump doesn't spare much time for reading. "I never have," he explains. "I'm always busy doing a lot." But what he is now busy doing is managing a global crisis w...
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With his blistering book, Sen. Flake shows the 'conscience of a conservative'Aug 09, 2017 1:00 am - That sound you hear is the wall of elected Republican support for Donald Trump beginning to crack. There was Sen. Lindsey Graham warning that firing special counsel Rob...
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At Dunkirk, the deliverance of a nationJul 30, 2017 1:00 am - By Michael Gerson That one of the greatest victories of World War II was a mass evacuation - more than 300,000 British and French troops taken off a beach at Dunkirk - w...