Michael Gerson
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President Obama’s dangerous overreachDec 05, 2012 3:41 pm - The endorsement of a continental nation being a powerful stimulant, all victorious presidents face the temptation of overreach. Following his re-election in 2004, Presid...
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Austerity and moralityDec 02, 2012 4:00 am - America is entering a period of prolonged austerity. The entitlement commitments made in a past generation have been rendered untenable by demographics and health cost i...
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Politics with a purposeNov 28, 2012 4:00 am - It is Steven Spielberg’s singular achievement to have made a heroic movie about compromise and petty corruption. In “Lincoln,” he pans away from a field of corpses 130 m...
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Making capitalism work for allNov 21, 2012 4:00 am - It is a particularly bad election when a party’s principal source of confidence is also its main form of a self-deception. Republicans generally believed that a presiden...
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The toxic allianceNov 18, 2012 4:00 am - The Catholic Church — a politically and ethnically sprawling institution — has no natural home on the American ideological spectrum. Neither major party combines moral c...
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Personal ethics, public trust and PetraeusNov 14, 2012 3:54 pm - The Petraeus affair -- like some Ethics 101 thought experiment -- is an exceptionally difficult test case in determining the proper relationship between personal ethics ...
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Reconstructing the GOPNov 12, 2012 4:00 am - The 2012 election was a substantial victory not only for President Obama but for liberalism. Obama built his campaign on abortion rights and higher taxes for the wealthy...
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A campaign scenario vindicatedNov 05, 2012 5:00 am - In November 2011, former Democratic pollsters — and current gadflies — Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell made a much-discussed argument in the pages of The Wall Street Journal...
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An appeal to America’s heartOct 29, 2012 5:00 am - The last days of the 2012 presidential election are a study in contrasts. Barack Obama has chosen to end his final campaign with an appeal both sour and small — Big Bird...
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Relentlessly reassuring RomneyOct 23, 2012 5:42 pm - “The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull,” said Dean Acheson. During the final presidential debate, Mitt Romney was every bit the statesman. On foreign p...