Galbraith
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As Salon’s Alex Galbraith recently explained in his daily newsletter, Crash Course, Walsh assumes his viewers “weren’t paying attention when their history classes got slightly more complicated.”
From Salon ● May 20, 2026
I could tell of the latest mystery I have read, the one by a pseudonymous author called Robert Galbraith.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
And though a forensics expert swabbed the interior of the yacht for explosives, there were no testing facilities on the island, said Allan Galbraith, the superintendent in charge of Operation Rainbow.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
He said the cannisters clearly displayed multiple vivid warnings which Mr Laws and Galbraith had ignored.
From BBC ● May 14, 2025
It was John Kenneth Galbraith, the hyperliterate economic sage, who coined the phrase “conventional wisdom.”
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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