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I sip my coffee. It’s good. “The de facto king of Iraq is a Kissinger acolyte named L. Paul Bremer III. On taking office, he passed two edicts that have shaped the occupation. Edict number one ruled that any member of the Ba’ath Party above a certain rank was to be sacked. With one stroke of the pen Bremer consigned to the scrap-heap the very civil
... See moreDavid Mitchell • The Bone Clocks: A Novel
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againstmalaria.comThe typical strongman either deprives courts of their powers or packs them with his loyalists and seeks to close all independent media outlets while building his own omnipresent propaganda machine.[5]
Yuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
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The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions—even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will do.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Where to intervene? Where to bring democracy? Where to nation-build? I propose a single criterion: where it counts. Call it democratic realism. And this is its axiom: We will support democracy everywhere, but we will commit blood and treasure only in places where there is a strategic necessity—meaning, places central to the larger war against the e
... See moreCharles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
The best option, indeed, is the combination that links an openness to free trade with covering individuals against the adverse consequences of exposure to the violent winds of the global market. As Dani Rodrik remarked in 1998, “government
Nicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
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