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Assistant Editorial Features Editor . Email: jason.willick@wsj.com

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    Feb 2

    Come for the Good Will Hunting reference, stay for the discussion of early American political philosophy. My weekend interview with Gordon Wood:

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  2. 4 hours ago

    In Orban’s Hungary, a Glimpse of Europe’s Demise via

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  3. 6 hours ago

    Lefty author gets more political as essay goes on but a lot to think about in core argument:

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    Aug 9

    The big internet platforms need to do two things: (1) admit that they're media companies and (2) get smaller: via

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    Aug 6

    John Kerry said that the era of the Monroe Doctrine was over. Unfortunately, he was wrong. As Venezuela melts down, and Hezbollah and China fish in troubled waters, Latin America is starting to matter more in US foreign policy. That isn’t good news.

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    Jul 30

    This is a very smart essay on the two Steven Pinkers by

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  7. Aug 9

    If intellectuals embrace this as the standard for our leading institutions . . . well, then I hope they at least start promoting fewer books blaming others for decline of liberal values.

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  8. Aug 9

    “Forget rules that apply equally to everyone—let’s punish people we don’t like and come up with a reason afterward.” Nothing good down that road.

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  9. Aug 9

    Kara Swisher argues that Twitter should dispense with neutral standards for use of its platform and instead arbitrarily toss figures it deems “obviously malevolent.”

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  10. Aug 9

    This is the future liberals want

    Fun trivia on the campaign trail in ARIZONA: This stretch of I-19 near the AZ-Mexico border is the only highway in US labeling distance in kilometers. Highway built in 1976, during peak of the American metric craze.
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    Aug 8

    My take on foreign meddling in elections

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  12. Aug 8

    Echoes of California:

    Big story here, suicidal drift of VA GOP to ultra-right? Emergence as a result of VA as a blue state?
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  13. Aug 8

    The American public? Sure. The press...

    I sat in on Manafort's trial yesterday and wrote about whether the American public could cope with a Mueller probe that concludes as Rick Gates's testimony did: not with a bang but with a whimper. My latest:
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    Aug 8

    Trump touts rapport with Rosenstein, a one-time Twitter target via

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    Aug 7

    An important thread from who has for some time been warning about the poisonous dynamic by which Trump's violation of norms makes ever greater norm violation tempting to his opponents.1/2

    I am obviously no Trump fan, but this essay, by a much-admired scholar, drops the mask and captures well the narrow-minded illiberalism that (in my experience) pervades Harvard. . 1/
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    Aug 7

    One week until . . .

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  17. Aug 7

    . at his best:

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    Aug 7

    It's always amazing how so many people claim to understand this danger in theory, but in practice are perfectly happy to cheer when extraordinary new powers are wielded against objects of their hatred

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  19. Aug 7

    Jonathan Turley says theory that Trump tower meeting was illegal "would mean treating information as a form of political contribution" that "courts likely would reject" under the First Amendment.

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  20. Aug 7

    Those two questions are not at odds but complementary.

    Trump & supporters keep complaining that Mueller is going after Manafort's 12-year-old crimes. But the better complaint is: Why didn’t anyone go after Manafort *before*? There were just So. Many. Red. Flags.
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  21. Aug 6

    Donald and the Di-Spy via

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