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Jeff Rubin's argument against globalization and peak oil economics

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United States support for South African apartheid and economic sanctions

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Macroeconomic factors in the subprime mortgage crisis

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Machiavelli and Hobbes on capitalism's boom and bust cycles

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The Yom Kippur War and Cold War nuclear deterrence policy

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Bush and Obama administrations: presidency, Congress, and Middle East policy

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Stephen Ambrose's Band of Brothers and World War II history

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Apartheid legislation and racial segregation in South Africa

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Theodicy in Thornton Wilder's novels: justifying God's role in evil

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