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In cultural matters we can hardly claim to have a left and a right anymore. Instead we have something more akin to two puritan sects, one masquerading as conservative, the other posing as revolutionary but using academic complaint as a way of evading engagement in the real world. Sect A...
Unlike Baghdad, where much has been rebuilt, Basra has undergone little repair. Many bridges lie in ruins, and sewage-pumping systems wrecked during the war have not been repaired. Streets in the city's slums are flooded with filth, and barefoot children often play in the foul roads; disease is...
Economic Keynesianism, at worst, leaves you with some nice government-built bridges. Symbolic Military Keynesianism leaves you with a vague sense of disappointment and massive hangover of drugs, crime, unemployment, a third-rate video duplicate of Whitney Huston "celebrating America's proudest moment" on HBO and a total absence of...
A: My goal was to use historical detail as much as possible. If a character is entering a city, he must use the right bridges of the period, he must enter the proper gates. On the streets he must meet the people of the time.... Sometimes this [research] was not...
The legacy of 20 years of warfare is explosive. Land mines dot the countryside like rice seedlings, and fighting forces remain heavily armed. U.N. troops may eventually demobilize regular units, but retrieving militia weapons will be harder. Banditry has been rising since a cease-fire took effect last May. A...