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The term ‘special relationship’ has been carved out by a long and relatively well-trodden history. The term was originally coined by former Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the wake of the Second World War. In a world where a victorious Britain had defeated Nazi Germany principally due to their alliance with the US, it was easy to see the need to promote a special relationship between the two nations. The relationship continued to simmer throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, reaching a particularly warm point in the 1980s under the dynamism and chemistry of the relationship between Prime...

REAGAN: If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.

The history of AIDS in this country is a deeply fraught and complicated one. It arouses deep emotions on all sides, as any plague that felled hundreds of thousands of marginalized people in the United States--and many millions more abroad--would do. But for that reason, and because the world is still peopled by the ghosts of friends who are no longer here, it surely behooves us to describe the record as accurately as we can, to treat the epidemic not as a political football game but as a tragedy with many lessons. Alas, that hasn't always been the case, and...