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This unwillingness to engage with the rest of the world - to risk the sense of security that it enjoys within its own borders - led Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, to reply to Rachman's column by saying that Europe was a "political dwarf in ... the rapidly changing geopolitical environment." There's an element of truth to the charge, but it goes too far. For one thing, it ignores the triumphant role of exemplar that the European Union has played in the last two decades. Yes, the pettifogging...
Many in Europe know just what to do with this peace and prosperity: lie back and enjoy it. As Gideon Rachman argued in a provocative column in the Financial Times in May, Europe has become a "giant Switzerland." Its people do not consider themselves threatened by the turmoil in the world around it, and see little point in going out looking for dragons to slay. Barack Obama may be Europe's darling, but he will find that his suitor's ardor cools pretty quickly the moment he asks European parents to volunteer their sons and daughters to beef up NATO...
Meanwhile, documentary filmmaker Paul Rachman is flooring critics with “American Hardcore,” a movie which credits hardcore music for single-handedly saving rock and roll, and winning the Cold War to boot (all those anti-Reagan moshes really spurred the Gipper on to greatness). Bear in mind that Rachman started his own “punk rock film festival” called Slamdance, which he abandoned as soon as he could finagle “Hardcore” into Sundance. [CORRECTION APPENDED. See below...
...Arts column, "A Farewell to 'Hardcore' Scene," included a misleading description of filmmaker Paul Rachman's involvement in the Slamdance Film Festival, which he founded in 1994. Rachman did screen his 2006 film "American Hardcore" at the Sundance Film Festival, rather than at the concurrent Slamdance. However, Rachman still serves as the East Coast director of Slamdance...
...only Rachman had bothered to let viewers hear an entire song! In a documentary about music, there’s actually very little music that does more than transition between scenes...