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A BRIEFCASE, A GUN–AND FATE: PART THREE (OF FOUR)
On March 30, 1981, a psychopath obsessed with a movie star proved that it didn’t take a sophisticated “Day of the Jackal” assassin to shoot the President of the United States. Seventeen years after the...
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A BRIEFCASE, A GUN–AND FATE: PART FOUR (OF FOUR)
On March 30, 1981, John W. Hinckley, a 25-year-old college dropout obsessed with actress Jodie Foster shot the President of the United States. By doing so, he hoped to become instantly famous. This,...
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LOVE VS. FEAR: PART ONE (OF TWO)
It’s probably the most-quoted passage of Niccolo Machiavelli’s infamous book, The Prince: “From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved than feared, or feared more than loved. The...
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LOVE VS. FEAR: PART TWO (END)
Is it better to be loved or feared? That was the question Florentine statesman Niccolo Machiavelli raised more than 500 years ago. Niccolo Machiavelli Presidents have struggled to answer this...
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THE LIMITS OF LOVE AND FEAR: PART ONE (OF THREE)
It’s probably the most-quoted passage of Niccolo Machiavelli’s infamous book, The Prince: “From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved than feared, or feared more than loved. The...
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THE LIMITS OF LOVE AND FEAR: PART TWO (OF THREE)
Is it better to be loved or feared? That was the question Florentine statesman Niccolo Machiavelli raised more than 500 years ago. Presidents have struggled to answer this question—and have come to...
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THE LIMITS OF LOVE AND FEAR: PART THREE (END)
American Presidents—like politicians everywhere–strive to be loved. There are two primary reasons for this. First, even the vilest dictators want to believe they are good people—and that their goodness...
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REPUBLICANS: SOLICITING ASSASSINATION
“The Republican Party has weaponized its supporters, made violence a virtue and, with almost every pronouncement for 50 years, given them an enemy politicized, radicalized and indivisible.” So wrote a...
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“IT IS NOT I WHO ATE THE LAMB,” SAID THE WOLF–AGAIN: PART ONE (OF THREE
On October 24, 2018, a would-be killer mailed pipe bombs to: Former President Barack Obama Former President Bill Clinton Former First Lady and United States Senator Hillary Clinton Former Attorney...
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“IT IS NOT I WHO ATE THE LAMB,” SAID THE WOLF—AGAIN: PART TWO (OF THREE)
On June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof, a white high school dropout, gunned down three black men and six black women at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. The evidence...
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“IT IS NOT I WHO ATE THE LAMB,” SAID THE WOLF–AGAIN: PART THREE (END)
Increasingly, Republicans have repeatedly aimed violent—-and violence-arousing—-rhetoric at their Democratic opponents. This is not a case of careless language that is simply misinterpreted, with...
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WHEN PRESIDENTS ACT LIKE MAFIA BOSSES: PART ONE (OF TWO)
It’s probably the most-quoted passage of Niccolo Machiavelli’s infamous book, The Prince: “From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved than feared, or feared more than loved. The...
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WHEN PRESIDENTS ACT LIKE MAFIA BOSSES: PART TWO (END)
A reputation for being feared can be useful. But it’s dangerous to constantly employ cruelties or punishments. Whoever does so, warns Niccolo Machiavelli, “is always obliged to stand with knife in...
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SOME ARE LOVED, SOME ARE FEARED, SOME ARE HATED: PART ONE (OF THREE)
It’s probably the most-quoted passage of Niccolo Machiavelli’s infamous book, The Prince: “From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved than feared, or feared more than loved. The...
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SOME ARE LOVED, SOME ARE FEARED, SOME ARE HATED: PART TWO (OF THREE)
Is it better to be loved or feared? That was the question Florentine statesman Niccolo Machiavelli raised more than 500 years ago. Presidents have struggled to answer this question—and have come to...
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SOME ARE LOVED, SOME ARE FEARED, SOME ARE HATED: PART THREE (END)
American Presidents—like politicians everywhere—strive to be loved. There are two reasons for this. First, even the vilest dictators want to believe they are good people—and thus rewarded by the love...
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LOVE VS. FEAR: PART TWO (END)
Is it better to be loved or feared? That was the question Florentine statesman Niccolo Machiavelli raised more than 500 years ago. Presidents have struggled to answer this question–and have come to...
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THE LIMITS OF LOVE AND FEAR: PART ONE (OF THREE)
It’s probably the most-quoted passage of Niccolo Machiavelli’s infamous book, The Prince: “From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved than feared, or feared more than loved. The...
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THE LIMITS OF LOVE AND FEAR: PART TWO (OF THREE)
Is it better to be loved or feared? That was the question Florentine statesman Niccolo Machiavelli raised more than 500 years ago. Presidents have struggled to answer this question—and have come to...
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PRESIDENTS: THE LOVED, THE FEARED, THE HATED—PART ONE (OF THREE)
It’s probably the most-quoted passage of Niccolo Machiavelli’s infamous book, The Prince: “From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved than feared, or feared more than loved. The...
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