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Bullies
Read more: BulliesThe Gori legions. There’s a pop theory making the rounds in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Georgia and China’s opulent hosting of the Summer Olympics. It repudiates Francis Fukuyama’s now 20-year-old assertion that the collapse of Soviet communism marked the “end of history” and implies that 20th-century autocracies are…
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Bringer of bread
Read more: Bringer of breadWithout bread and without light, the mind begins to slip. In the dog days of early July, when all cooling breezes resolve to leave the city, the aging screenwriter who lives in the building across from mine and from time to time brings me fresh bread, seemed also to vanish…
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Big top blues
Read more: Big top bluesWelcome to the politics of noise, and above to entertainment at all costs. I was a Boy Scout in Washington, D.C. at the height of the Vietnam War when any kind of institutional belonging was seen as conformity, and conformity as ratification of adult choices, which included what many saw…
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Awesome America
Read more: Awesome AmericaTo appreciate America’s self-involved gusto — its “great hugeness,” as Jack Kerouac once put it — means accepting ruined attention span. Imagine the United States through the eyes of two-year-old David James. As an infant, he delighted his visiting grandparents with insatiable brays and stomps. Now, 18 months later, they…
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And the cradle will rock
Read more: And the cradle will rockIn temperament, Italy stands apart from Europe. The crisis afflicting Italy and Europe is incomprehensible to many Italians. It is a weird swirl of accosting numbers and percentages similar to the estimations made by the nuclear age arithmeticians who connected megatons to death tolls and established game theory tables grading…
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Adam Lanza
Read more: Adam LanzaThe mind of a loner incubates a self-indulgent tyranny of self over self to the exclusion of all around it. The mind of a loner is a place of infinitely private ducts and gears. It sees itself as a unit separate from anything around it. It formulates thoughts and intelligence…
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