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Ethan Fishman

Ethan Fishman is the author of The Prudential Presidency and a professor of political science at the University of South Alabama.

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Unto Caesar

Religious groups that have allied themselves with politicians, and vice versa, have ignored at their peril the lessons of Roger Williams and U.S. history

by Ethan Fishman | Saturday, September 01, 2007
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Laissez-Faire Run Amok

The extremist, and enduring, philosophy of Ayn Rand

by Ethan Fishman | Tuesday, December 01, 2009
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Not Compassionate, Not Conservative

A political traditionalist critiques our pseudo-conservative president

by Ethan Fishman | Friday, December 01, 2006
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2nd Look

The NASA You Never Hear About

by Isabelle Taft

Fifty years ago this week, when Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon, the moment represented years of work and technical accomplishment. But it also left NASA struggling with a daunting new challenge: figuring out what to do next. Over the years, it has answered this question in part by highlighting the dizzying array of inventions it has inspired—some 1,500 a year. “Besides rocket science itself, perhaps the biggest thing people fail to understand about the agency is how its work has reverberated throughout the world in ways we experience directly every day,” writes Isabelle Taft. “It’s a mark of the agency’s enduring influence that even if we never make it there, we’re already living in a society forged by outer space.”