Beginning this afternoon, shortly after (former) president Ben Ali fled Tunisia, I started getting calls about the effect of social media on the Tunisian uprising. I answered a few questions, mostly deferring reporters to friends in Tunisia for their side of the story, and then settled in for the night…only to find rantings and ravings […]
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1968
42 years ago: a revolution on the brink. 1968: the year of protests. the year that rocked the world. the year that Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were brutally murdered*. I was born 14 years later, too late to understand the intricacies of the time. I showed up too late for the […]
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Poor Alternatives
Anne Applebaum, liberal-ish Washington Post and Slate correspondent, former-USSR expert, and wife of the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, recently published the most ridiculous op-ed of all time, entitled “Morocco, an Alternative to Iran.” On Slate, it was published as “Morocco Makes Peace With Its Past” (perhaps even more proposterous), and I perhaps wouldn’t have […]