Alex Copulsky, Author at Harvard Political Review

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Quick Thought On International Law

Alex Copulsky - December 23, 2008

At the Nuremburg Trials, we (meaning primarily the US) set the precedent that the initiation of aggressive war was a crime punishable by death....

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Bernie Madoff & The Fiscopalypse

Alex Copulsky - December 23, 2008

The scandal surrounding Bernie Madoff's bilking of all those nice people is, in the grand scheme of things, not that consequential. But I think...

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An Odd Symmetry

Alex Copulsky - December 13, 2008

I couldn't help but notice a pretty odd parallel (or, properly, inversion) between the abortive auto bailout killed by Senate Republicans and the TARP...

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A Quick Cynical Thought

Alex Copulsky - December 11, 2008

Area of the country most likely to suffer from an auto industry failure: The Great Lakes region, a Democratic stronghold with large investments in...

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On Bipartisanship

Alex Copulsky - November 15, 2008

Briefly: It's a load of bull. Less briefly: "Bipartisanship" is a feel-good election-y term that should not, and cannot, be the way President...

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Happy Democracy Day!

Alex Copulsky - November 6, 2008

It's November 4, 2008. I'm currently sitting in a history seminar on the Yalta Conference of 1945, discussing how the Allied leaders...

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Eternal War?

Alex Copulsky - September 29, 2008

I don't think most Obama supporters realize that Obama is running on a platform promising unending war in the Middle East. I don't mean...

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A Historical Perspective on the 2008 Election

Alex Copulsky - September 18, 2008

I was recently reading the Harvard Independent (a mistake, I know), and one of the writers had a piece discussing two widely-read articles over...

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Culture War: On Like Donkey Kong

Alex Copulsky - September 9, 2008

The presidential race has taken more of an interesting turn than I could have imagined with John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as a...

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On History

Alex Copulsky - September 2, 2008

recently read an article by Bernard-Henri Levy in the New Republic on the financial crisis, which I highly recommend. There was one part I...