How Walter Scott Started the American Civil War , by Scott Horton

Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi (1883) George William Curtis, The Editor’s Easy Chair, Harper’s, Mar. 1891 A week ago this morning, I was standing in

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U.S. Attorneys Scandal--Seattle , by Scott Horton

Jeffrey Toobin has written a beautiful, but very worrying, piece in the current New Yorker. It’s more than competent reporting; it can stand as a monument

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Mark Fuller and the Siegelman Case , by Scott Horton

Over the last two months I have examined many different aspects of the Justice Department’s prosecution of former Governor Don E. Siegelman. The

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Impeach Alberto Gonzales , by Scott Horton

Having spent the last week overseas, I was busy on return catching up with missed episodes of Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show.” And I found the fake-news

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A Note on Trakl's 'Song of Kaspar Hauser' , by Scott Horton

I have just posted my translation of one of Georg Trakl’s poems, The Song of Kaspar Hauser from the collection published posthumously in 1915 entitled

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Blackwater Down , by Scott Horton

The cloud of secrecy that surrounds the private security contracting industry is nowhere more evident than in the workings of Blackwater U.S.A. The

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