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Charles R. Morris is the author of several books, including American CatholicThe TycoonsThe SurgeonsThe Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown and The Sages (June, 2009).

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Charles R. Morris reviews "Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality" by James Kwak.
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Economic inequality is the central domestic political issue in the upcoming presidential election.
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Could the 2008 recession herald a progressive revival?
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Henry Luce defined the print media model that dominated for most of the last century.
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America engages a new world: Charles Morris on the magazine from 1959-2009
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Charles Morris chronicles the first 50 years of America.
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In 1938, America’s comparison of the terrors of Nazism with those in Spain was probably accurate. Fulton J. Sheen estimated that 12,000 clerics and 200,000 noncombatants had been murdered by the Spanish Republicans. Those numbers are too high, but not wildly so. Hugh Thomas, in his 1986 update of The Spanish Civil War, reports that contemporary estimates of about one million deaths in the war are now considered about twice too high. Thomas estimates 7,000 murders of clerics at the hands of Republicans, which is still pretty horrific. Ultimately, the Nationalists’ murders outnumbered those of the Republicans’, but not by huge margins, and the bulk of them occurred during their post-victory “White Terror.” If the Republicans had won, they would surely have indulged in their own “Red Terror.”

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What exactly is the innovation gap?
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De gustibus non est disputandum is a snippet of medieval wisdom mostly honored in the breach as evidenced by Michael Kammen 8217 s Visual Shock a cheerful history of more than a century and a half of arguments about art Kammen is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of American culture and his re
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Voltaire loved to mock the pretensions of scholastic philosophythe notion that some grand intellectualist construction would explain any fact the conviction that one rsquo s own mental categories were the real stuff of the universe the assumption of a guiding intelligence behind every event What