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							<title><![CDATA[American Sniper, American Iliad]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/02/21/american_sniper_american_iliad_125676.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Strauss</author>
							<description><![CDATA[American Sniper is a box office hit and Oscar worthy. Hollywood experts can explain the many reasons for its appeal but to a classicist, the moviemakers simply went back to basics. They followed the fundamentals of a great war story that are as old as western literature itself: heroism,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Lessons of D-Day]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/06/06/real-lessons-d-day/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Strauss</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 70th anniversary of D-Day is a time of pride, gratitude and fear. Pride that the generation of &rsquo;44 had the courage to storm across the English Channel and take the Nazis&rsquo; Fortress Europa. Gratitude that their self-sacrifice has helped make it possible for us to enjoy 70...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Under the Banner of Women]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2014/bc0327bs.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Strauss</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hollywood might not know much about history, but it has an advanced degree in sex and violence. Yet somehow, it can manage a surprising amount of insight into the human condition. A case in point is 300: Rise of an Empire, a sequel to 2006&rsquo;s hugely successful 300. Both films are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No, America Isn't Going the Way of Rome]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/18/does-budget-battle-signal-end-american-republic-not-so-fast/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Strauss</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Isn&#194;&#146;t America going the way of Rome? So the op-ed writers and pundits are asking, as if the recent, seventeen-day U.S. government shutdown crisis and threat of a debt default is a sign of the American republic at its end. Rome had its oligarchs and populists, they say; we have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Present at the Revolution]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2013/bc0118bs.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Barry Strauss</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An obscure suicide from antiquity played a big role in our nation&rsquo;s independence. The American Revolution&rsquo;s success depended, of course, on the steely determination of George Washington&rsquo;s men, freezing in Valley Forge during the winter of 1777&ndash;78. But their...]]></description>
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