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...actual consequences. For example, the Bush administration’s refusal to negotiate regularly with the Iranian government, while grounded in a generally sound moral judgment of that government’s character, had the practical effect of allowing the Iranian nuclear program to progress substantially. Insofar as dispassionate factual analysis prevents this sort of moral indignation as policy, it is worth encouraging...
...from the research into CIA psychic programs recounted by Jon Ronson in his book of the same name, “The Men Who Stare At Goats” is an attempted comedy and would-be political satire that fails on just about every conceivable level. For Ronson, a factual foray into the paranoia and government-funded absurdities of the Cold War era made for excellent non-fiction fodder. Presented as a film with one-note characters and only the barest discernible plot, the material is, to put it charitably, less engaging...
...work that is at once brilliant reportage and a sustained cry of outrage that makes Charles Dickens' Hard Times - which covers much the same ground - read like sentimental tosh. Not the least of Hunt's achievements is to show how what Engels saw in Manchester provided the essential factual underpinning for the theoretical work on capitalism that he and Karl Marx would later produce. (Read: "Marx's Engels...
Friedrich Engels, the son of a comfortable German family in the textile business who had been sent to work in Manchester, was just 24 when he wrote The Condition of the Working Class in England--a brilliant book whose subject would provide the factual underpinning to the analysis of capitalism that Engels and his friend Karl Marx later produced. Hunt, a British historian, details the way Marxism would not have been possible without Engels, an unlikely revolutionary who worked for years as a high-living, foxhunting capitalist to support Marx's endeavors--Engels' devotion was such that he even assumed...
...approaching Court decisions.Souter, whose polite but persistent questioning of lawyers who appear before the court and gracefully written opinions reflect his relatively liberal stance, described himself as a “pragmatic,” in the sense that he “worries first about the case and factual details of a case before deciding just how grand a principle is necessary to decide it.”“That’s why I espouse the common law method, which gets down to nitty-gritty kinds of factual issues to decide which of the competing principles...