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. Upsetting the court of public opinion… A very interesting article, Covering their arts by John Elder (October 13, 2013 ), examines the controversy over Bill Henson’s images of children sparked an age of censorship that...

INTRODUCTION: This is the second of a five-part series exploring the Iran-Contra Affair and its implications. Part 1 described the Reagan Administration’s secret wars and illegal arms deals exposed in the scandal. Part 2 explains how the constitutional...

What We Talk About When We Talk About Cultural Diplomacy, edited version of piece as published on American Diplomacy By John H. Brown "Ô douce Volupté, sans qui, dès notre enfance, Le vivre et le mourir nous deviendraient égaux." --La Fontaine Enter...

From Ian: JPost Editorial: Jews and France As French philosopher and scholar of anti-Semitism Alain Finkielkraut noted in an interview with Army Radio on Sunday, the French intelligentsia sees Jews as “in some ways responsible for what is happening...

CHINATOWN, THE MOVIE, made abundantly clear that the history of Los Angeles hinged on the history of water — the lack of it and the getting of it. Or, as LA’s legendary water superintendent William Mulholland once (dryly) observed about channeling water...