HeyJaredA User's Guide to History
Everybody uses history, some better than others. This User's Guide offers suggestions on how the past shapes the present, and how the present shapes what we think about the past.
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6. False dawn (opens the original)
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In the early days of America’s containment policy, American leaders operated on the assumption that communists were all alike. A victory for communists in China was interpreted as a victory for the communists of the Soviet Union. The United States spent so long fighting Vietnamese communists because American leaders thought a victory by Ho Chi Minh would be a victory for communist China and communist Russia.This American thinking was not without basis. Shortly after Mao Zedong’s communists took
The playing fields of Eton (opens the original)
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Do tell (opens the original)
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46. Incorporating rights (opens the original)
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John Marshall rarely missed a chance to expand the power of the federal government. But he deliberately whiffed in the 1833 case of Barron v. Baltimore. The plaintiff asserted that the city had taken his property without compensating him for it. The Fifth Amendment forbade such taking. “Nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation,” it said. Barron sought relief.Marshall denied it. “The question thus presented is, we think, of great importance but not of much dif
Bond. US Bond (opens the original)
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”I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”James Carville was not an economics expert. But as a political operative and adviser to Bill Clinton, he understood the effect of economics on politics. During the 1992 presidential campaign he urged focus on a single theme: “It’s the economy, stupid.” As a White House aide he observ
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