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The First Punch
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How does History move? A generation ago, in the Nineties, it seemed to have forgotten how: perhaps, as Elijah mocked the prophets of Baal, History was on a journey, or…

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Fighting Words
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From their introduction to Raritan on War, an anthology of writing from the journal Raritan, which will be published next month by Rutgers University Press. War challenges the limits of…

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Sphere of Affluence
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From Homeland, which was published in September by Crown. In his 2005 book Planet of Slums, Mike Davis pointed out that, since the Seventies, the world’s poor countries have urbanized…

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New Books
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Because I’ve written about government conspiracies, I sometimes hear from crazy people. “Only the intervention of AI can stop Man from creating Hell cybernetically,” one wrote recently. “It would be…

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Oliver Stone’s Alternate States
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On Stone???s compulsive???and necessary???historical revisions

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