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<title><![CDATA[Leon Wieseltier - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16123.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Leon Wieseltier]]></description><category domain="16123">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Rubble of Palmyra]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/rubble-palmyra-syria-isis/403921/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leon Wieseltier</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the ruined ruins of Palmyra could speak, they would marvel at our shock. After all, they have been sacked before. In their mute and shattered eloquence, they spoke for centuries not only about the cultures that built them but also about the cultures that destroyed them&mdash;about the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Iran Deal and the Rut of History]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/07/iran-deal-history/399644/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leon Wieseltier</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The president said many times he&rsquo;s willing to step out of the rut of history.&rdquo; In this way Ben Rhodes of the White House, who over the years has broken new ground in the grandiosity of presidential apologetics, described the courage of Barack Obama in concluding the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran Is Not Our Friend]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116229/iran-not-our-friend-diplomacy-shouldnt-blind-us-human-rights</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leon Wieseltier</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the foreign policy front .&thinsp;.&thinsp;. I find myself ?wondering why we cannot regard another country, in this case Iran, ?as just that, as one more country which we would regard as neither friend nor foe, with whom we are prepared to deal on a day-to-day basis, neither...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ryan's Nasty Ideal of Self-Reliance]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/magazine/politics/106459/paul-ryan-nasty-philosophy-self-reliance-ayn-rand</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leon Wieseltier</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MAL TIEMPO, BUENA CARA. Those words were attributed, in a wrenching story in The New York Times last winter, to Isabella Rivera, who is 86 years old and lives in Washington Heights. She exists on $688 a month in Social Security and $148 in Supplemental Security Income. When her apartment...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Richard: Remembering a Formidable Friend]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/79956/richard-holbrooke-wieseltier-obituary</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leon Wieseltier</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Richard Holbrooke was a piece of work. He was a paradoxical man: a remarkably subtle thinker capable of the most egregious lack of subtlety, a brilliant diplomat with one of the least diplomatic temperaments anybody ever encountered. He was always cunning but never malevolent. Mentally,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ahmadinejad's Giggle and Obama's Cool]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/article/environment-energy/washington-diarist-platons-cave</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leon Wieseltier</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I am as worldly as the next dreamer, but the scales fell from my eyes, the same ones that keep finding their way back to my eyes, when I opened The New Yorker a few weeks ago and found, in a portfolio of &ldquo;portraits of power,&rdquo; Mussolini&rsquo;s full-page face piggishly staring...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Will the Realist Start Getting Real?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=11e5e7d3-e378-4276-928c-3b80132221b3</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leon Wieseltier</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time for Obama to Admit It: He's a Liberal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=6326efa0-c2b5-4de7-86b0-a2f95c85cb2d</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leon Wieseltier</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Change Arrives]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=b88b8198-e8cb-4e50-96c2-34f35d67d126</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leon Wieseltier</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Pakistan Inflict More Peril?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=178642ba-8c5d-44eb-a1c1-2898a66e2c60</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leon Wieseltier</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why I'm Voting Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=48009e42-978b-4535-8f03-a6bcad5ca10d</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leon Wieseltier</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[There Will Be Blood]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=eda292db-2a6a-4b29-9459-683dc17b3604</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leon Wieseltier</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Old Left-Wing View Of The Cold War Returns]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/11/the-analogists-ball.aspx</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leon Wieseltier</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dread of Winter]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=9f0a9643-9db8-4e04-8ad7-904f38d9f07d</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leon Wieseltier</author>
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