Or, all hail King George! (And if you don’t , I’ll cut your newspapers to ribbons…)
So here’s what a recent Op-ed piece looked like in a major newspaper. A petty Thirld World dictatorship? An Eastern Bloc Country before Perestroika?
NO, it’s AMERICA and it’s TODAY, 23 December 2006.
New York Times: What We Wanted to Tell You About Iran
There are so many little nuggets in Amartya Sen’s book Development as Freedom that I really don’t know where to start, as there were so many little post-it notes stuck at passages that I thought were either entertaining or made excellent points, or contained interesting perspectives on points I’d thought about before that I stopped trying to keep track about halfway through the book. But certainly a key observation was that there has never been a famine in a functioning multiparty democracy which also had a working free press.
Enigma Foundry
