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| Wednesday 2 February 2011 |
Message to America: Hands off Egypt!
After decades of backing autocrats, the best thing Washington can do for the cause of Egyptian democracy is to butt out.
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| Friday 21 January 2011 |
Who are the real ‘devils’ of the recession?
For all the blame heaped on immoral bankers, it was poor profitability in the productive industries that fed the Wall Street monster.
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| Monday 10 January 2011 |
Falsely accusing the Tea Party of murder
Liberal commentators’ rush to blame the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords on heated political rhetoric exposes their censoriousness and intolerance.
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| Wednesday 29 December 2010 |
This is a crisis of the state as well as the market
While some good books were written in the immediate aftermath of the financial crash, those authors who spent more time reflecting before writing offer us the best insights.
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| Friday 3 December 2010 |
Jonathan Franzen: the Great American Malthusian
Franzen’s deep misanthropy prevents Freedom from being a good novel: his characters’ lack of nobility means they just aren’t interesting.
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| Friday 26 November 2010 |
A liberal contempt for the land of the free
For all the praise heaped on Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel Freedom, it actually reveals the people-hating, anti-freedom essence of the modern liberal mindset.
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| Thursday 4 November 2010 |
A protest vote not a Republican revolution
The real lesson of the US midterm elections was that voters have little faith in either party to solve America’s problems.
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| Thursday 14 October 2010 |
The truth about the Currency Wars
America should get its own economic house in order rather than blame the slump on China’s currency antics.
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| Wednesday 6 October 2010 |
Wall Street 2: we’re all Gordon Gekkos now
In Oliver Stone’s sequel, released in British cinemas today, it’s no longer only the pinstriped bankers who are sinfully greedy - it’s all of us.
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| Monday 27 September 2010 |
In the Tea Party debate, who’s really acting crazy?
Liberal activists’ dismissal of the Tea Party as ‘insane’ only shows how cut-off they are from the American masses.
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| Tuesday 14 September 2010 |
The Koran controversy: what was that all about?
It was the profound jitteriness of Western society that allowed one cranky pastor from Florida with 50 followers to hold the whole world to ransom.
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| Tuesday 17 August 2010 |
The Culture War over the Ground Zero mosque
It’s hard to know who’s worse in the NYC mosque debate: the opportunistic, anti-Muslim right or the Muslim-loving, masses-fearing liberals.
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| Monday 2 August 2010 |
This is a ‘digital deluge’, not the Pentagon Papers
Some are comparing Wikileaks’ 92,000 Afghan documents to the internal US study of Vietnam leaked in 1971. But the differences are striking.
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| Friday 16 July 2010 |
Why more really is more
A vital new book calls for a counter-offensive against the idea that economic growth and mass prosperity are no longer desirable.
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| Friday 25 June 2010 |
Why more really is more
For centuries, economic growth and mass prosperity were understood to be highly desirable, yet today these social objectives are under siege. Daniel Ben-Ami’s new book is a clarion call to begin a counter-offensive.
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| Thursday 24 June 2010 |
Staging a mutiny in Rolling Stone magazine
General McChrystal’s anti-Obama blabbing to a hippie mag exposes the internal disarray of the US elite.
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| Thursday 17 June 2010 |
Obama: the Gulf between words and deeds
Instead of all the dithering, lofty rhetoric and tough talk, the US president should be honest about the need to keep on drilling.
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| Friday 28 May 2010 |
The unreliability of memory
In his latest novel, the mostly hopeful story of a dying man trying to make sense of his life, Paul Auster ditches his usual formalism in favour of creating engaging characters.
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| Monday 24 May 2010 |
Why Mrs Europe is bashing the bankers
Angela Merkel’s unilateral decision to ban ‘short selling’ shows how deluded and divided the political class is.
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| Monday 17 May 2010 |
Why Greece matters
The economic turmoil in southern Europe shows that, far from going away, the global financial crisis has entered a dangerous new phase.
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