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09.04.2009 12:00 pm

Of mosquitoes and global warming

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Dean Cornwell, "The Conquest of Yellow Fever,"  Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

Dean Cornwell, "The Conquest of Yellow Fever," Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

I’ve been re-reading “The Path Between the Seas,” David McCullough’s masterful history of the Panama Canal. In some ways, it’s less timely now than when it was published…

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04.10.2009 9:01 pm

Plutonomy on the ropes: How to save capitalism

Was this man a socialist?

Was this man a socialist?

In the second volume of Edmund Morris’ magnificent (and still in progress) biography of Theodore Roosevelt, we find Elihu Root, Roosevelt’s great friend and one-time secretary of state, reminiscing about TR’s war with the railroad industry in…

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