Word: legacyism
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From Washington to Jerusalem there is hope that Assad's all-but-certain successor, his son Bashar, might display at least a tad more flexibility than his father. But it seems likely that Bashar's first task will be to consolidate his power. The same weeping parliamentarians who mourned Assad...
The nerve Eshkevari touches is velayat-e faqih, Khomeini's concept that gives the Muslim clergy, in particular its most revered scholar, absolute, God-given authority to govern Iran. Considering that legacy, political reformers avoid challenging it directly. But dissident clerics began questioning the dogma after Khomeini's death, an...
Like all good satire, this hurts because it is, in its essence, so accurate. Where once my generation was celebrated for its commitment to peace and justice, what we've grown to be--what we always were, probably--is a generation committed to nothing more (or less) substantial than what...
Thus casual Friday may not be our final legacy after all. Instead, we may create a gerontocracy of such unity and might that it will either utterly dominate the American political map or provoke all-out generational warfare. In a nation in which only 66 million vote in off-year...
All of this amounts to quite a political legacy. Al Gore and George Bush have a lot to live up to. They'd better get started.