Archive for " April, 2006"

Thanks to the prestige and importance of the Supreme Court, throngs of people awake at ungodly hours of the morning to stand in line for the Court’s limited capacity audience seating. Also, the novelty of Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito attracts even more people. All this makes witnessing oral arguments before [...]

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How did the members of President George W. Bush’s foreign policy team rise to power?  What events shaped their policy viewpoints and political worldviews?  James Mann, in The Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet, seeks to answer those questions.  He describes the careers of the six top “Vulcans”—officials who worked in [...]

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