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Though it is now more than two decades since Henry A. Kissinger '50 left his job as Richard M. Nixon's secretary of state, the foreign policy whiz kid has not lost his reputation as one of the greatest analysts of international affairs of the 20th century...
...important too to remember the restrictions on servicemen's correspondence. Whereas in the Civil War soldiers could wax poetic in detailed epistles about the topography around battlefields, the long rock gullies of the Maryland countryside or the paltry food rations at Vicksburg, 20th century U.S. troops were censored from describing their surroundings for fear of tipping off the enemy to military movements. As a result their letters home are far more personal, more expressive of the gripping fears and hopeful longings of young men with no illusions left. Each one of these introspective letters sounds the distant and disturbing echo...
...19th and 20th centuries, nationalism was promoted by elites who developed sophisticated appeals to generate a sense of national identity among those whom they saw as their compatriots and to rally them for nationalist causes. Now, however, the emergence of a global economy, plus the arrival of transnational coalitions (on issues such as women's rights or the environment), has led many elites to develop a more cosmopolitan identity. Yet the average citizen in most countries remains strongly nationalistic and often strongly opposes elite views...
Despite Western allies, the world's last bloc of true monarchies--Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the little gulf sheikdoms, Morocco and Jordan--isn't off the hook either. Monarchy went out of political fashion in the 20th century. Most Arab dynasts have held on thanks to oil, isolation or tribal and family loyalties. But petrodollars also educated a generation now eager to connect with a globalizing world...
...Consumers are smart and perfectly aware when they're being sold; surely parents who go to the Pampers site are happy to find worthwhile information there and are capable of distinguishing between a commercial message and an editorial one. Art and journalism, until they became pretentious in the late 20th century, always relied on direct subsidy from private sources. Don't think for a minute that commercial interests didn't enter into...