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...favorite of a radical salon crowd in Victorian England for his mix of egalitarianism, insurgent tactics and rugged sex appeal - a forerunner of Argentine Marxist Che Guevara. Though T shirts may be rare, after his death Garibaldi's name would adorn monuments, towns and mountain ranges from Rome to Russia, Canada to Brazil...
...Everything is entertainment. The news is entertainment. Sports is entertainment. It's all just one big game show," he says. And the Internet, oh, he does not like the Internet. "The Internet is a big dark hole. What if the Internet was the lead mugs that everyone in Rome was using that led to the end of that civilization? What if 20 years from now, the Internet led to the downfall of the world...
Mandatory national service books The absence of mandatory military service in the baby boom generation has contributed to America's largely slovenly culture. Are We Rome by Cullen Murphy and A Call to Civic Service by Charles Moskos suggest bringing it back...
...Foreign Policy and National Security In March 2001, in this magazine, Charles Krauthammer baldly stated what would become the foreign policy of the brand-new Bush Administration: "America is no mere international citizen. It is the dominant power in the world, more dominant than any since Rome. Accordingly, America is in a position to reshape norms, alter expectations and create new realities. How? By unapologetic and implacable demonstrations of will...
...healthy democracy. And I believe that the failure of my generation, the baby boomers, to sacrifice for the nation in any significant way, as our parents did, is the source of much of the sourness and corrosion that afflict our public life. In a new book, Are We Rome?, Cullen Murphy avoids the standard imperial clich?s but finds some interesting parallels, especially the notion that the Roman Empire began to falter when it started hiring out major functions of the government, including military service, to private contractors. Murphy cites the use of corporations like Halliburton to provide services that...