Michael Gerson
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Design of the divine?Jan 20, 2015 12:01 am - The biographer Eric Metaxas recently made waves by arguing that modern science increasingly "makes the case for God." Writing in The Wall Street Journal, he framed some ...
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Washington's psychological polarizationJan 14, 2015 12:01 am - As the 114th Congress begins in earnest, there are a number of things - such as tax and immigration reform and trade agreements - that political adults would like to get...
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The politics of homicideJan 11, 2015 12:01 am - Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; Mock on, mock on; 'tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. William Blake expressed ...
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Are Democrats stuck in 1979?Jan 08, 2015 12:01 am - The passing of Mario Cuomo brought bipartisan tributes appropriate to a rare political figure with a developed inner life. He was Catholic educated, and it showed. How m...
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Clear choice, or clear trauma?Jan 06, 2015 12:01 am - One outcome of and proof for ideological polarization is the way it has made stalwarts appear like centrists. In what world is Hillary Clinton - feminist heroine, author...
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Room for non-conformityDec 30, 2014 4:01 am - The movie "The Imitation Game" has revived deserved interest in Alan Turing, the eccentric genius of Bletchley Park who helped create the marvelous machine that broke Na...
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A global conspiracy of good healthDec 24, 2014 4:01 am - In the category of stunning, heartening, woefully underreported good news: In 2000, an estimated 9.9 million children around the world died before age 5. In 2013, the fi...
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The arrogance of liberal elitesDec 21, 2014 4:01 am - Jonathan Gruber - the source of more smoking guns than the battle of Gettysburg - recently appeared before a hostile House committee. The good professor, you might recal...
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For a politics of repairDec 17, 2014 12:01 am - The just-ending 113th Congress was not, by most measures, productive. But its endgame was at least instructive. As a trillion-dollar omnibus spending bill trundled into ...
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An act of exceptional recklessnessDec 10, 2014 4:01 am - With the release of the Feinstein report on CIA interrogations of high-value terrorists a decade ago, let's consider the situation of intelligence personnel who have bee...