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George and Barbara Bush are part Episcopacy--they met as a result of being born into the same social class. Bill and Hillary Clinton are part Mandarin--they met in the library of Yale Law School. It could be argued that the Clintons are the first White House occupants who...
"Economists approach things from the idea of rational held interest; man maximizes his preferences," Shin says. "Within a economic conception of the world, there's no such thing as patriotism."
And that would have been a shame, for this novel marks a return to the high literary intensity that Vargas Llosa had mastered before his temporary detour into Peruvian public life. It is an attempt to track down, through the labyrinth of fiction, experiences that defy rational explanation.
How is the average rational but open-minded American to resist the opinion-framing tendencies of the media and to evaluate individually and fairly the First Lady of the United States? The real problem for suspect political figures in general and for Hillary Rodham Clinton in particular is that more...
The result of this inaccurate portrayal is the difficulty with which the public struggles against media-induced extremity, and attempts to formulate its own rational opinion of these "condemned prior to judged" politicians. How can we fairly assess Hillary Rodham Clinton's status without falling into one of the two...