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14 May 2016

9:00 AM

14 May 2016

9:00 AM

 Washington, DC

A few weeks ago, I attended the 40th gala dinner of a Washington think tank called the Ethics and Public Policy Center at the St Regis Hotel, just down the street from the White House. William Kristol, editor of the neoconservative Weekly Standard and unrepentant champion of the Iraq War, was the MC and Paul Ryan, -Speaker of the House, the star guest.

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Jacob Heilbrunn edits the National Interest, and is the author of They Knew They Were Right: the Rise of the Neocons.

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