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Engelhardt: Marvelous tales from our new imperial age
Znet Article, December, 23 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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John Larner in his elegant micro-study, Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World, tells us that the "marvelous… was an essential element in medieval geography." On medieval maps and i...
Engelhardt: Marvelous tales from our new imperial age
Znet Article, December, 23 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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John Larner in his elegant micro-study, Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World, tells us that the "marvelous… was an essential element in medieval geography." On medieval maps and i...
Engelhardt: Justice goes offshore and is imprisoned
Znet Article, December, 21 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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Quote of the day: Timothy Noah of Slate writes: "[Vice-president Dick] Cheney violated the Bush administration's policy of never saying the e-word in a Christmas card he and his wife ...
Engelhardt: The Morning After
Znet Article, December, 16 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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"When told yesterday that [German Chancellor] Schroeder believed Mr. Bush's contract decision might violate international law, the president responded with a sarcastic gibe: 'International law? I better...
Engelhardt: This Sporting Life
Znet Article, December, 14 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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This Sporting Life
Engelhardt: Been There, Done That
Znet Article, December, 11 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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Been There, Done That
Engelhardt: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Znet Article, December, 11 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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Quote of the half-century: Captain Ted L. Shipman, American intelligence officer, "Only the fear of force gets results. It's the Asian mind. It's completely different than the Western mind… Look -- they're a thousand years behind us in...
Engelhardt: Looting Planet Earth
Znet Article, December, 08 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner was a British film of my youth. Such a title makes no sense today when millions upon millions of people, including our last two presidents, run everyw...
Engelhardt: Appointment in Samarra
Znet Article, December, 03 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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Quote of the day: "'They attacked and they were killed,' General [Peter] Pace [vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] said of the insurgents [in ...
Engelhardt: The Squawking Chicken
Znet Article, December, 01 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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Aid and comfort to himself: "Adm...
Engelhardt: Imperial Folly:
Znet Article, November, 29 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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Quote of the half-century: Senator J. William Fulbright, 1966: "Power has a way of undermining judgment, of planting delusions of grandeur in the minds of otherwise sensible people and...
Engelhardt: Checking Out the Administration Scorecard
Znet Article, November, 24 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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Checking Out the Administration Scorecard
Engelhardt: Bring Him On
Znet Article, November, 19 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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Bring Him On
Engelhardt: Whose Analogy Is This Anyway?
Znet Article, November, 10 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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Whose Analogy Is This Anyway?
Engelhardt: Whose Analogy Is This Anyway?
Znet Article, November, 10 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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Whose Analogy Is This Anyway?
Engelhardt: The Time of Withdrawal
Znet Article, October, 31 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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The Time of Withdrawal
Engelhardt: The Time of Withdrawal
Znet Article, October, 31 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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Though we arrived in Iraq speaking the language of lib...
Engelhardt: The Wilson Affair
Znet Article, October, 08 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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In the context of the collapse of every explanation for the war in Iraq (other than the obvious strategic ones which were never expressed by the administration or discussed in the media), the looting of Iraq, the looting of this country, and the...
Engelhardt: Edsel Speeches
Znet Article, September, 24 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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Quote of the day: "Officially, administration officials say that they had expected the drop in support for the president, and that they were not concerned about the turn of events.'We put out a memo three months ago predicting that this was goi...
Engelhardt: Iraq Analogies
Znet Article, September, 09 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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Iraq Analogies
Engelhardt: Giving Good War
Znet Article, May, 26 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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Can't you feel the war already slipping away, just like Saddam Hussein or Mullah Omar or Osama Bin Laden? How briefly triumphal it was, the Iraqis falling before our forces, our tanks heading north, our missiles hitting home, much of it in real ti...
Engelhardt: Embeds in Washington
Znet Article, April, 04 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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Years ago, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm produced a book, The Journalist and the Murderer, in which she claimed that the essence of journalism was betrayal. Actually, she took an extreme example of journalism -- a reporter who entered into a con...
Engelhardt: Good morrrrrning, Iraq....
Znet Article, March, 29 2003
Tom Engelhardt
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Let's start with a touch of irony. For thirty years, the men (and lone woman) now running our country have also been running away from Vietnam. In this war, it only took six days for Vietnam to catch up to them. Last night, for instance, here's wh...
