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And yet. One of the most convincing writers on this subject was the American political scientist Barrington Moore. In his work on the social origins of dictatorships, Moore coined the phrase "No bourgeois, no democracy." It may be true that a middle class is necessary for the establishment of basic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freedom's Loss | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

Novelists love twins--evil twins, vanishing twins, incestuous twins, conjoined twins, spooky dead-little-girl twins. We make handy symbols for any writer who feels inclined to muse on the nature of human identity, which is basically every writer ever. But twins aren't symbols; they're people. There are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghost World | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

But what? And how much will we care when it does? Niffenegger is an extraordinarily sensitive and accomplished writer, and Her Fearful Symmetry is a work of lovely delicacy. With its gravestones and ghosts and pallid, hollow-eyed waifs, it's pure goth porn. At times, it's more. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghost World | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

Hence the difficulty in convincing the world of the Goldstone Report’s inherent bias; hence its remarkably pervasive credibility, even after items like Chinkin’s letter to The London Times have, at least in the minds of cognizant individuals, exposed the report’s farcical...

Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: All in a Name | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

If Obama is truly in favor of controlling our borders and curbing illegal immigration, then it is necessary to make it less appealing to disregard the law and sneak into the United States. By sending the clear message that illegal immigrants will not be hired—as well as...

Author: By Alix M. Olian | Title: No Jobs but No Deportation | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

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