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Passing Amusements
The Duchess and Duke of Windsor Sucking Up to the Führer I missed Christopher Hitchens’ review of The King’s Speech back in January, but it deserves to be widely read in the wake of the movie’s success at the Oscars last night.Read More
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Elites and the State
Arundhati Roy on elites and the State in India: [T]his democracy has created a situation in which the elites are fused with the state; they see and think like the state. They always want to be ministers or policy makers. They are never citizens who are angry or outraged or protesting. They’re never at the at the receiving end of power; they are at the disbursing end of power. Sound familiar? This from an interview with Roy in the new (March 2009) issue of The Progressive.Read More