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The author of ‘Straw Dogs’ — one of the most influential political thinkers of recent decades — analyzes the Israeli conflict and argues that populism is a reaction to liberal policies
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The Government’s Greatest Con Job Dollar: a paper money, silver or cupronickel coin, and monetary unit of the United States, equal to 100 cents. So runs the dictionary definition. But if one dollar equals 100 cents… what then is a cent? The answer is one-hundredth of one dollar. And what again is one dollar? 100 cents. And so we begin an infinite chasing of the tail — one dollar is 100 times one cent, one cent is one dollar divided by 100. Trillions upon trillions of dollars are rolling from the presses. Many more will follow. We should understand what in fact they are. We seek clarity....