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An Almost-Chosen People

Paul Johnson

When Abraham Lincoln called Americans โ€œthe almost chosen people,โ€ he used an apt phrase, as valid now as when he coined it a hundred and forty years ago. It...

The Capitalism & Morality Debate

Paul Johnson

The decade of the 1980s has proved to be an ideological watershed. It has been marked by a huge resurgence of the power and efficacy of the capitalist market...