Wednesday, December 28, 2011
The Strange Triumph of Liberal Democracy
The Strange Triumph of Liberal Democracy: Intelligent observers of Europe in the 1930s thought its future belonged to communism or fascism and would have ridiculed the notion that decades later the entire continent would be democratic. New books by Jan-Werner Müller and Eric Hobsbawm illuminate the changing fortunes of the continent’s great ideologies.
Why Occupy Wall Street is Not the Tea Party of the Left
Why Occupy Wall Street is Not the Tea Party of the Left: Unlike other movements, the rallies across the United States have no distinct constituency, put forward few policy proposals, and have a shifting configuration of supporters. They are something new. These are "we are here" protests.
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