Policies That Spawn Economic Inequality Rather Than Free Trade Could Bring about an Economic Crisis
These developments have raised concerns about the durability of globalization among its supporters. In April 2005, Martin Wolf of “The Financial Times” gave a lecture titled “Will Globalization Survive?” at Washington’s prestigious pro-globalization Institute for International Economics. More recently, Harvard professor [...]

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Russia and the West are losing each other yet again. The magnetic attraction and repulsion between the two has been going on for centuries. Indeed, historians have counted as many as 25 of these cycles since the reign of Tsar Ivan III.
In the past, however, the Kremlin’s sharp anti-Western turns were reversed — usually out [...]

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Revisionists say that World war II was unnecessary. They’re wrong.
Historical scholarship has nevertheless offered various sorts of revisionist interpretation of all this. Niall Ferguson, for one, has proposed looking at the two world wars as a single conflict, punctuated only by a long and ominous armistice. British conservative historians like Alan Clark and John Charmley [...]

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This is a fictional account of what could have happened.
The rapid advance of the German army through Belgium and France in May 1940 left hundreds of thousands of British, French and Belgian troops encircled at the port of Dunkirk in northern France.
But then Hitler ordered a halt to the attack. This gave the British [...]

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So were these America’s worst presidents? Or does this list merely prove that rankings are valuable to the extent they spark debate, unhelpful to the extent they foreclose it? A look at the rankings of several historians we approached individually yields a provocative contrast to the poll results—and suggests how some of the more interesting [...]

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