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Airy-Man
Read more: Airy-ManOnce the angels were up, they cavorted. As did others. In December 1963 came the great Christmas tree crisis. It had a prelude, however: the missing angels. Every year my mother patiently placed her handmade angels in a box following the festivities so they could enjoy a year of beauty…
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The insolence of demagogues
Read more: The insolence of demagoguesGeorge Wallace (1919-1998): “I’ll tell you here and now, I will never be outniggered again.” The insolence of demagogues — the phrase is Aristotle’s — is embedded deep in American political culture, no matter how much recent comments by presidential aspirant and loose cannon Donald Trump seem suddenly and foolishly…
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“Very, very real”
Read more: “Very, very real”Attachment to the news sometimes makes detachment impossible. “The attacks have left American Muslims feeling defensive and vulnerable just as the San Bernardino attack is forcing them to come to grips with the prospect that the threat from terrorists within their midst is very, very real.” • Muslims in America…
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Skywalker’s intell
Read more: Skywalker’s intellAbu Musab Al-Zarqawi, who helped create the Islamic State, was killed by the U.S. in 2006. Publishers are busy releasing a steady stream of books about the genesis of the Islamic State, or ISIS, the latest in a line of Al Qaeda successors seemingly suited to the voyeuristic Western appetite…
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After-burger
Read more: After-burgerHours of half-indolent ideological hectoring. Imiss the long-defunct Columbia Anti-Imperialist League, a rag-tag bunch of loquacious if often dazed college students who insisted they’d fallen out of love with the dehumanizing conduct of Western industrial affairs. The Leaguers didn’t so much embrace Moscow or Marx or even communism as they…
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Paris, III
Read more: Paris, IIIPolice agents don masks to seek out suspects and suddenly come to look like suspects themselves. The phrase “preemptive alarmism” needs 21st-century coining. Preemptive alarmism is when a French prime minister publicly says Paris might be vulnerable to chemical or biological attacks. Or when an Italian official (via American intelligence)…
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