Egyptian Democracy’s False New Friends
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 8th, 2011 5:37 am by HL
Egyptian Democracy’s False New Friends
David Brooks and Leon Wieseltier, whom I’ll politely call “historically neo-conservative” commentators, are singing Kumbaya and shouting whatever is Arabic for “Right on!” to Egyptians who are pressing bravely for democracy and Hosni Mubarak’s departure. At least one might think…
Unintentional Revolutionaries
Every century seems to have its revolutions and their progenitors. Often, the gap between the idea and its political effect can be 50 years or more. The first volume of Marx’s Das Capital was published in 1867, but it wasn’t…