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<title><![CDATA[Michael Anton - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/20553.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Michael Anton]]></description><category domain="20553">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Tom West's Founding]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/salvo/tom-wests-founding/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our task is to match not only the founders' courage, but their wisdom and prudence in order to revive American self-government.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Birthright Citizenship: A Response to My Critics]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/features/the-case-against-birthright-citizenship-2/birthright-citizenship-a-response-to-my-critics/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s time to find a reasonable way forward.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[You Are the Enemy]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/salvo/you-are-the-enemy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[USA Today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' recently published a piece excoriating Project 2025 and all who worked on it as (you guessed it) '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'racist.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' I had very little to do with Project 2025'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'I was asked for some thoughts on how best to organize the National Security Council Staff, provided those...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Only One Constitution Can Survive]]></title>
							<link>https://tomklingenstein.com/only-one-constitution-can-survive/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new book highlights the contrast between the founders' Constitution and the Progressive alternative currently supplanting it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Authoritarianism From the Left]]></title>
							<link>https://tomklingenstein.com/authoritarianism-from-the-left/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the nice things about a core curriculum'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'sadly disappearing from most of higher education'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'is that it forces you to read books you would otherwise have skipped. Although this can be painful in the moment, it often pays off in unexpected ways.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Pessimistic Case for the Future]]></title>
							<link>https://compactmag.com/article/the-pessimistic-case-for-the-future</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Recently, I was asked to make the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'pessimistic case for the future.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' I present instead more of a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'pessimistic take on the present.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' The future, while imminent, is obscure.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bill Kristol &amp; His Dishonorable Hit Squad]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/10/the-dishonest-and-dishonorable-disagreements-of-former-friends/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is astonishing to be accused of anti-Americanism by longtime denigrators of America, and even more astonishing to be accused of divisiveness by people who casually throw around the term '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Nazi.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Does Fidelity to Our Founding Principles Require?]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2022/09/26/what-does-fidelity-to-our-founding-principles-require-today/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If historicism is false, then the American system can be lost. Tyranny can recur. But do conservatives see this?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Immorality of 'The Godfather']]></title>
							<link>https://compactmag.com/article/the-immorality-of-the-godfather</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The ostensible premise of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Godfather, the film version of which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, is that American society is so prejudiced against Italians that extraordinary men such as Vito and Michael Corleone have no choice but to turn to crime. In a way, then, author...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Socialism and the Great Reset]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/salvo/socialism-and-the-great-reset/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It has become increasingly common to hear those on what we may call the conventional Right claim that the main threat facing the historic American nation and the American way of life is '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'socialism.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' These warnings have grown with the rise of the so-called '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Great...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[They Can't Let Trump Back In]]></title>
							<link>https://compactmag.com/article/they-can-t-let-him-back-in</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The people who really run the United States of America have made it clear that they can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t, and won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t, if they can help it, allow Donald Trump to be president again. In fact, they made this clear in 2020, in a series of public statements. Simply for quoting their words in an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[National Review's Ignorant Nazi Smear]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/salvo/reductio-ad-hitlerlum/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[National Review's failure to grasp the friend-enemy distinction is revealing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blue America's Messaging Problem]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/salvo/blue-americas-messaging-problem/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On December 19, 2021'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'less than a week before Christmas'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the Biden White House issued a statement containing the following extraordinary sentence, which astonished even the Administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s harshest critics and alarmed many inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Clearly Not in U.S. Interest to Go to War Over Taiwan]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/20/why-its-clearly-not-in-americas-interest-to-go-to-war-over-taiwan/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Chinese care about Taiwan infinitely more than we do. Is it wise to threaten a nuclear strike over a territory they see as vital?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Should Be the End of Our Rotten Ruling Class]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/salvo/afghanistan-doomed-from-the-start/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Twenty years of ruling class failure.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Right Flight: The War Between the States]]></title>
							<link>https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/right-flight/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the preface to Texas vs. California, Kenneth Miller indicates that he finished his manuscript in May 2020. That makes it unusually prescient for an academic book. For at that time, three key events lay ahead: the summer in which some 220 American cities were looted and burned...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Election Integrity: Real Differences Between 2016 &amp; 2020]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2021/02/23/why-do-the-elections-defenders-require-my-agreement/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The purpose of voting today is to give a democratic veneer to an undemocratic regime'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'not to give the people a say in the direction of their government.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Is No Time for Senate Republicans to Go Wobbly]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2020/09/19/confirm-a-justice-now/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The instant Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's passing was announced, the battle lines were drawn. Or, more accurately, one side girded for battle, while Republicans clucked with confusion about what to do next. Which should be no surprise. If Republicans are good at anything, it's finding...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Coming Coup?]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/essays/the-coming-coup/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats are laying the groundwork for revolution right in front of our eyes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Donald Trump I Know]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2020/09/06/the-donald-trump-i-know/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I had never met Donald Trump when I began serving in his White House. I took the job expecting that I would never meet him. My (former) role'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'head of communications at the National Security Council'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'is not one whose occupant traditionally interacts with the president all that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Tyranny Perpetual and Universal?]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2020/08/28/a-tyranny-perpetual-and-universal/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After Is 2020 another 'Flight 93 election?' the question I most often hear is What happens if Trump loses?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  The answer to the first question, unfortunately, is yes, but more so. The tl;dr summary of the answer to the second is: much more of the same.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Impeachment Is a Cause in Search of a Trigger]]></title>
							<link>https://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-empire-strikes-back/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What the effort to impeach President Trump is really about.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trump Foreign Policy Doctrine]]></title>
							<link>https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/20/the-trump-doctrine-big-think-america-first-nationalism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two years into U.S. President Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s tenure, there is still endemic confusion about what, exactly, his foreign policy is.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Washington Post's Lazy, Dishonest Propaganda]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2019/03/14/the-washington-post-snuggles-with-a-racist-security-blanket/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the last three evenings, Americans watched Tucker Carlson refuse to be cowed by the sophisticated, well-funded, coordinated information operation designed to chase him off the air and make him unemployable for life.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tucker Carlson Must Not Be Silenced]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2019/03/11/tucker-carlson-must-not-be-silenced/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://amgreatness.com/2019/03/11/tucker-carlson-must-not-be-silenced/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s be completely clear here. Nobody'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'least of all the leftwing mobs attacking Tucker Carlson right now'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'cares what he said on the radio a decade ago.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, the Founders, and Independence Day]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/07/04/trump_the_founders_and_independence_day_137428.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Independence Day is, or should be, a time to reflect on the great gifts bequeathed to us by the American founders, and to judge ourselves by their standards. How well are we maintaining the country they built for us, and the principles which helped to make it great?
The answer is at once...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Too Much Immigration Benefits Big Biz, Not U.S.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-do-we-need-more-people-in-this-country-anyway/2018/06/21/4ee8b620-7565-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.e09276c54245</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Capitol Hill Republicans attempt for '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' what, the eighth? ninth? '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' time in the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' past two decades to jam through an amnesty that their voters have explicitly, loudly and repeatedly said they do not want, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s worth asking a question that is rarely raised: Does the United...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America and the Liberal International Order]]></title>
							<link>https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/02/america-liberal-international-order/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a year of upset political apple carts, none were rattled harder, or lost more fruit, than traditional notions of American foreign policy. Donald Trump shocked a lot of people over a lot of issues. But no anti-Trump Republican economists orchestrated elaborate letters, with hundreds of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Costs of Containing Iran]]></title>
							<link>http://article.nationalreview.com/433174/iran-and-the-costs-of-containment/michael-anton</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Anton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even as momentum for Iran sanctions grows, containment seems only viable  option,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' reads a Washington Post headline from April  22. Leaving aside for the moment the dubious  character of the first half of that assertion, is it really true  that containment is now the...]]></description>
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