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As a Foreign Service Officer in the US Department of State, I spent more than 30 years serving our country. I feel a special...
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As a Foreign Service Officer in the US Department of State, I spent more than 30 years serving our country. I feel a special...
To be human is to experience limitations, and no limitation is as tangible as one’s finite ability to know. To surmount these cognitive limitations,...
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I was lucky to have Tom Nichols as a mentor and professor rough a decade ago and I have always found his honest and...
Over at the LA Times, I offered my thoughts on the recent Trump decision to get tough on China. While events in recent days...