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How Hubris Hurts:My keynote address to the Mid-American Model United Nations

Welcome once again to the Mid American Model United Nations. As we begin our 23rd conference, I am honored to be able to address such a great group of students, teachers, and staff. It’s not that I really need any reminders about how long I’ve been doing this, but as I look out at the […]

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Single Issue Voters: Beavers in the Stream of Life

When we’re sitting around and trying to figure out why compromise is so difficult to achieve, we often claim that the increased polarization of the country is driven by the increasingly radical positions taken by the right or the left (depending on our own politics.) And to an extent that seems true. But I would […]

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