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Walter Russell Mead

Walter Russell Mead is the Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at Hudson Institute, the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College, and the Global View Columnist at The Wall Street Journal. He co-hosts the weekly Tablet news podcast What Really Matters.

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    The A(braham) Bomb

    Why we’re fighting our political battles like religious wars

    byWalter Russell Mead
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    Build Back Red California

    The transformation of Dust Bowl migrants into surfing suburbanites was a social and economic miracle that supercharged the American dream. It can be replicated today.

    byWalter Russell Mead
  • Still from ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ (1968)
    Still from ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ (1968)
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    You Are Not Destined to Live in Quiet Times

    Humanity’s third major technological revolution is leading us into a future more promising and also more dangerous than any since the dawn of history. It’s coming faster than you think.

    byWalter Russell Mead
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    Our Singular Century

    How to connect the dots when they’re spinning out of control

    byWalter Russell Mead
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    American Crisis

    How we lost our faith in the future and how to get it back

    byWalter Russell Mead
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    The American Zionist Dream

    How William Blackstone, Henry Cabot Lodge, and their fellow Christians saw a Jewish state as deeply American

    byWalter Russell Mead
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