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THE LYMAN REPORT: Can Democracy Succeed in the 21st Century?
Publisher’s note: The eve of the Fourth of July seems like the perfect occasion for a history lesson on American independence, and there’s no better person to provide this than Ray Lyman. “Democracy...
View ArticleTHE LYMAN REPORT: From Suez with Love
by Ray Lyman All nations are born in violence, which is the midwife of every national existence, including our own. It is in the nature of the tribal, ethnic, and religious minorities of mankind to...
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THE LYMAN REPORT: Taxing Internet Commerce
“Government’s view of the economy can be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” —Ronald Reagan “The problem with...
View ArticleTHE LYMAN REPORT: My Conspiracy Theory about the Kennedy Assassination
by Ray Lyman It is unlikely that anyone will ever know for certain what happened on Elm Street in Dallas, Texas, 50 years ago this month when a 46-year-old American president was assassinated in a...
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THE LYMAN REPORT: Casting a Long Shadow
An expression of defeat is revealed on the face of this officer of the French Foreign Legion at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. by Ray Lyman The last hundred years, the most violent in recorded human history,...
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THE LYMAN REPORT: Why Ukraine Matters in the 21st Century
Ukraine was the breadbasket of Europe until forced collectivization of Ukrainian agriculture and a brutal purge of its most productive farmers led to one of the worst genocides of the 20th century....
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THE LYMAN REPORT: WARS WITHOUT END
by Ray Lyman The map of the Middle East that was drawn in the aftermath of World War I has changed hardly at all since 1922. No attempt was made to separate Sunnis, Shias, Kurds, Alawites,...
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THE LYMAN REPORT: Winston Churchill’s Magnificent Folly, Part 1
In no other field of human endeavor are imagination and boldness so vital yet so rare as in warfare. It was for this reason that millions of men from Galicia and the Isonzo to Ypres, Flanders, and...
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THE LYMAN REPORT: How Political Outsiders Have Shaped America
The United States has had a two-party political system since the election of 1800, but from outside that two-party system have often emerged the political outsiders who have shaped the destiny of the...
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THE LYMAN REPORT: In Praise of Income Inequality
These protestors in the Occupy movement demand an equal distribution of wealth and income in America. Without really knowing why, they hate Wall Street, big banks, and corporations, and are determined...
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THE LYMAN REPORT: Andrew Jackson and the War against American History
by Ray Lyman Andrew Jackson stands on the ramparts above the Rodriguez Canal as 8,000 British regulars, veterans of Wellington’s campaigns in Spain and Portugal, push forward across a sugarcane field...
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THE LYMAN REPORT: After Brexit
Before the end of the 19th century, the great German chancellor Otto von Bismarck sagely predicted that the most influential geopolitical reality of the 20th century would be that the British and...
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THE LYMAN REPORT — The 30 Essentials of U.S. Politics 2016: Defining the...
America is defined by political terminology, which is constantly changing according the conventional wisdom and popular trends of the time. The definitions of, say, 1960 or 1980, let alone 1900 or...
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THE LYMAN REPORT: Why America Went to War in 1917
A blindfolded Secretary of War Newton D. Baker draws the first draft numbers from a fishbowl on 20 July 1917. The lottery numbers ranged from 1 to 10,500, and each of the 10 million registrants in the...
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