The following letters to the editor appeared in the Wall Street Journal in response to an article that was published in the WSJ on August 13 regarding Marxist inspired historian Howard Zinn whose published work, A People’s History of the United States, was widely recommended reading in our universities since the 1980s. Scroll down […]
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COMMENTARY The Citizen of the World Presidency Elliott Abrams Elliott Abrams is senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national-security adviser in the administration of President George W. Bush. He is the author, most recently, of Tested by Zion,
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NOVEMBER 14, 2011, 8:03 P.M. ET Cuba, Mexico, the Bahamas, Canada and Russia are all moving ahead on projects adjacent to our borders. By LISA MURKOWSKI Ms. Murkowski, a Republican, is a U.S. senator from Alaska Last week the Obama administration proposed a modest expansion of offshore oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean and the
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OCTOBER 17, 2011 U.S. Will Inspect Cuban Rig Deep-Water Drilling—60 Miles From Florida—Prompts Concern About Oil Spills By RUSSELL GOLD U.S. officials are trying to make sure the American coastline will be protected as Cuba begins drilling a deep water oil well later this year about 60 miles off the Florida Keys. Administration officials will
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APRIL 4, 2011 Why lend legitimacy to the Castro brothers? By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY They say that Cuba is a place where time stands still and it certainly seemed that way last week when Jimmy Carter arrived in Havana to fraternize with the Castros. The image of the 86-year-old American ex-president wearing a wide smile
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MARCH 21, 2011 Why Obama Went to Brazil There’s a chance to build a new foreign policy alliance that disdains dictators like Hugo Chávez. By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY President Obama’s trip to Brazil, Chile and El Salvador this week, while war rages in Libya, has been sharply criticized as proof of dangerous detachment from a
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FEBRUARY 7, 2011 The most striking difference between the two countries is Internet access. By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY Developments in Egypt over the last two weeks brought Cuba to my mind. Why does a similar rebellion against five decades of repression there still appear to be a far-off dream? Part of the answer is in
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JANUARY 10, 2011 The Communist Party affirms that ‘central planning and not the market will be supreme.’ By JOSé AZEL With his characteristic intellectual wit, Cuban writer Carlos Alberto Montaner defines communism as “the time countries waste between capitalism and capitalism.” By this account, the Cuban government is now in its 52nd year of wasted
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