Larry DeWitt essays

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Essays

This is a collection of my essays on a variety of scholarly topics.

October 2006	Review of Charles Murray's "In Our Hands"
August 2006	Can War Resolve the Middle East's Conflicts?
May 2006	Review of Francis Fukuyama's "America at the Crossroads"
May 2006	Should Historians Try to Rank President Bush's Presidency?
May 2006	Ranking the Bush Presidency- Part II
December 2005	Power Corrupts President's Precepts
October 2005	Moynihan, Welfare Reform, and the Myth of "Benign Neglect"
August 2005	Rap Music: Making Excuses for a Degenerate Culture
May 2005	An Examination of the Transition Costs of Personal Accounts in the Bush Plan for Social Security Reform
May 2005	The Honest Broker Stage of Policymaking: Supplying the Missing Piece to Current Policy Models
April 2005	The Utility of the Study of History: Reflections on a Recurring Folly
November 2004	Some Skeptical Reflections Regarding the Prospects for Policy History
September 2004	Operation Coffeecup: Ronald Reagan’s Effort to Prevent the Enactment of Medicare
May 2003	The Medicare Program as a Capstone to the Great Society-Recent Revelations in the LBJ White House Tapes