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“All Slaves …Shall Be Free”

(This essay was originally published in the Newport Daily News on December 31, 2012, as “Emancipation changed the war, and the nation.”) One hundred and fifty years ago today President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect, stating that “all persons held … Continue reading

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Western Gifts to Arabs

(Published in the Newport Daily News on March 14, 2011, as “Democracy is West’s Gift Back to the Arabs”) As the Arabs for centuries kept alive and eventually passed back to the West the learning of the ancient Greeks, the West … Continue reading

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