Michael Gerson
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Filling the silence after the sirensApr 21, 2013 5:00 am - The sense of helplessness that follows a tragedy is too much for us. So we fill the silence after the sirens with explanations. This is very human — until it becomes inh...
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Food aid programs need more flexibilityApr 17, 2013 5:00 am - Since the Eisenhower administration, the United States generally has done food aid in a certain way: grow and pack it in America, ship it across the world on American-fl...
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Margaret Thatcher: moralistApr 12, 2013 5:00 am - Post-World War II Great Britain was the full, fearless application of modern liberalism — what Margaret Thatcher called “those banal and bureaucratic instruments of coer...
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An incitement to genocideApr 07, 2013 5:00 am - Over the years, Americans have come to discount statements on Israel and Zionism by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Repetition has rendered them unremarkable. Isr...
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A victory for school choiceApr 03, 2013 5:00 am - The school choice movement — which germinated 50 years ago in free-market economist Milton Friedman’s fertile mind — recently counted its largest victory. The Indiana Su...
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Polarized by faithMar 31, 2013 5:00 am - Second of two parts. At the Normandy American Cemetery on the cliff above Omaha Beach, there are rows and rows of crosses and Stars of David. Certainly, many buried ther...
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America’s fast track to secularizationMar 28, 2013 5:00 am - First of two parts. There is a close relationship between culture and cult — between the shared attitudes and values of a people and their religious views and practices....
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The GOP’s strategic failureMar 24, 2013 5:00 am - Recent brutal attacks on the GOP have claimed that minorities often think that “Republicans do not like them or want them in the country.” That younger voters are “rolli...
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The risks of retreatMar 19, 2013 5:00 am - Declining national influence is a choice, and America seems to be making it. What foreign policy practitioners politely call the “churn” of events is beginning to look m...
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The boilerplate gapMar 14, 2013 5:00 am - It would be a mistake to confuse a budget proposal for a proposed budget, though they bear a superficial resemblance. A budget proposal — of the type that Paul Ryan, R-W...