Alex Copulsky, Author at Harvard Political Review

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Re: Liberal Realism

Alex Copulsky - April 8, 2009

So I happened to notice the Debbie Downer note of Elise's last post, and I wanted to focus specifically on the question of whether...

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The New Military Budget

Alex Copulsky - April 7, 2009

It's rather hard to comment in detail on Secretary Gates's new plan for the military, for the reason that the plan in and of...

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Junk Swaps

Alex Copulsky - April 6, 2009

So the latest incarnation of the bank rescue plan is as follows: Banks have crap. Changes in accounting rules allow banks to paint crap gold....

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The Crescent City Waxes on Education

Alex Copulsky - April 5, 2009

New Orleans takes a chance on charter schools In his recent response to the State of the Union address, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal took the...

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George W. Bush, Secret Liberal

Alex Copulsky - March 18, 2009

"I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying...

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Argument by Star Wars

Alex Copulsky - March 17, 2009

As a child, I absolutely loved science fiction. Which is why I think it's so kind of neat that we can now have robots...

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Agreeing to Disagree

Alex Copulsky - March 17, 2009

I loved this post by Ross Douthat, the Atlantic blogger (and future New York Times token conservative columnist!) and wanted to highlight it. In...

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Nuclear Instability Watch

Alex Copulsky - March 15, 2009

So it seems matters are coming to a head in Pakistan. Today, anti-government protests in Lahore were confronted by riot police. After violent confrontations,...

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Free Riding

Alex Copulsky - March 13, 2009

The US is hardly the only First World nation which regards the actual text of its Constitution as a bit of an inconvenience. Japan...

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Budget Hijinks

Alex Copulsky - March 12, 2009

At this point, the only force that continues to pose an effective threat to a progressive agenda is the Democratic Party. Not the party...