December 2009
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“Alaska, the particular reality from which Palin hails, is so little known by...”
– Jonathan Raban’s review of Going Rogue in the new issue of the New York Review of Books
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Top Ten Worst Things about the Bush Decade; Or,... →
By spring of 2000, Texas governor George W. Bush was wrapping up the Republican nomination for president, and he went on to dominate the rest of the decade. If Dickens proclaimed of the 1790s revolutionary era in France that it was the best of times and the worst of times, the reactionary Bush era was just the worst of times. I declare it the decade of the American oligarchs. Just as the end of...
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