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Phil Klay

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The Last American Aristocrat

George Kennan made hierarchy seem seductive.

by Phil Klay via UnHerd on August 12, 2022
How Did Guns Get So Powerful?

Decade by decade, firearms have become deadlier—and tightened their grip on our collective imagination.

by Phil Klay via The New Yorker on June 11, 2022

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Kitchen workers moving a paper-mache Statue of Liberty in 2009 Kabul, Afghanistan.

Pervasive Impunity

How four presidential administrations managed to evade moral responsibility for the “war on terror” by hiding behind legality and process.

by Cora Currier via New York Review of Books on October 16, 2025

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