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// In the most recent mayoral election in New York City, the New York Times reports, for the first time, the majority of voters were non-white. This is of course a sign of things to come in New York and the US overall, as many have been projecting for a while that by the middle [...]
// Continuing from yesterday’s post… Afghanistan: A Tough Nut to Crack However, there are deeper structural impediments standing in the way of a modern Afghan state. From the rulers of the 18th century to the Taliban in the 1990s, certain characteristics of Afghanistan have continually thwarted the efforts of centralizing forces. Like Europe, whose rivers, mountain [...]
// The idea of many is that Israel “has a right to exist,” which really means it “has a right to continue to exist” (since something that doesn’t exist cannot possibly have any rights, logically). On what basis? At bottom, the thinking goes, it is on the basis that the Jews constitute a distinctive ethnic [...]
