Sublime

Carvalho’s background is unusual. Born in 1947, in his late teens he became an opponent of the military regime and by 1966 was a member of the Communist Party. After just two years Carvalho left the Communist Party and went to university to study psychology. In the early 1980s he wrote A imagem do homem na astrologia (The Image of Man in Astrology,

Thomas Friedman’s 2005 book The…

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Tyler’s tall, thin body and square-framed glasses were well known across the world. The recently retired US secretary of defense, he had exerted a deep influence on his country’s national strategy.

atavistic

Rubber was a colonial product par excellence. In the late nineteenth century, King Leopold II of Belgium had claimed a vast colony in the Congo and established a brutal regime bent on rubber extraction, one that brought the population down by some ten million. The French, British, and Dutch, for their parts, had set up rubber plantations in their S

What Jack Abramoff had discovered in Saipan was the same thing the Bush administration lawyer John Yoo had discovered in Guantánamo Bay: empire is still around, and places with anomalous legal statuses can be extremely useful.