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Yoram Hazony on 'The Virtue of Nationalism' October 19, 2018
RealClearBooks: What do you understand by “nationalism”?Yoram Hazony: Nationalism is a principled standpoint that sees the world as governed best when nations are given their independence and freedom to chart their own course on the basis of their ow...
Jonathan Rauch on Happiness After 50 August 17, 2018
RealClearBooks: In “The Happiness Curve,” you write that crises such as unemployment, divorce, disease take their toll on human beings — which is intuitive — and cite research that puts a price take on it ($60,000 a year for losing your job; $100,00 ...
Reagan, the USSR, and 'The Brink' of Nuclear War July 27, 2018
RealClearBooks: I guess it’s not giving away the ending of your book — because readers will know that the world was not destroyed — but just how close did we come to all-out nuclear war on November 8, 1983?Marc Ambinder: The scariest part of it is ho...
Mark Mills on 'Work in the Age of Robots' June 20, 2018
RealClearBooks: Let’s start with your book title. I always thought the advent of robots would mean we wouldn’t have to work anymore.Mark P. Mills: Well, a robot is, essentially, just a very complicated and — so far — expensive labor-saving machine. W...
