Elvin Lim, “Five Trends in Presidential Rhetoric,” Presidential Studies Quarterly (June 2002): 343.2. National debt estimates from U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government: Historical Tables, Fiscal Year 2007 and U.S. Commerce Department, Statistical Abstract o...
Compelling as his words may be, reality speaks otherwise. Historically, wars tend to constrict if not consume incubators of innovation, such as laboratories, libraries, universities, and human beings. Over the course of major conflicts, everything from architecture to literature stagnates as reso...
