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War at Christmas time

The forked desert road leads to nowhere. Each crossroad, each corner of a dusty street Evokes not the sleepy town of Bethlehem, But the chaos found in Fullujah or In the gutted houses of Tikrit, Along...

Two films, two journeys

Movie ReviewA few years ago, the entire life’s work of French communist director Robert Guédiguian was screened in a retrospective tribute at the Toronto International Film Festival. Guédiguian is unique in that he has chosen the...

Book Review: The question of torture, then and now

Henri Alleg’s book “The Question” is a searing, firsthand account of the torture that the author experienced during the Battle of Algiers. Although it was first published in 1958, it is a book that should still...

The post-abundance era

Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, foreign policy analysts have struggled to find a term to characterize the epoch we now inhabit. Although the “post-Cold-War era” has been the reigning expression, this label now...

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