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By the time Dylan inked his 2004 deal with Victoria’s Secret (he appeared in a second Victoria’s Secret Super Bowl TV spot in 2006) his embrace of the ad world seemed complete. But it wasn’t, quite.
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A fond farewell to the current Lexington – the US correspondent for the Economist. In a departure column, Lexington makes mention of Tocqueville on America After 1840, one of our new Tocqueville books that we’re quite excited about. I’ve always enjoyed L’s dispatches, and wish the successor the best!
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I was at my desk last week when I heard a Senior Editor mutter, “And the clouds roll in from New Jersey.” Since there are no windows by my cubicle, I began to imagine the scene outside.
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Writing for the Huffington Post, Follies of Power author David Calleo offers an assessment of Obama’s foreign policy. “…although Obama’s springtime has been brilliant, the summer that follows may well be disappointing and the autumn and winter bleak. His early success conceals the weakness of the hand he has been given to play.” Read >>
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Janet Afary responds to Nawal El Saadawi’s post above; read it here. “In Tehran and the big cities, young people might obtain a simple certificate of temporary marriage to avoid the morality police when they go to the Caspian Sea resort for summer vacation. They then annul the vow when they get home.”
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double X started a really fascinating dialogue between Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi and our own Janet Afary, author of Sexual Politics in Modern Iran.
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The New York Times quotes David Foglesong on America’s difficulty understanding Russian attitudes: “American have had this expectation that because Russia is white and Christian and had the same kind of frontier experience that America had, it would evolve more and more into the United States. The truth is that Russia is a separate country […]
Read MoreIn the late seventies, when Dylan turned to evangelical Christianity, outraged fans and critics alike took issue with the music and the man. This was music marking a moment in time, in Dylan’s life and the nation’s.
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