Animal Farm
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The Griz
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Let The Games Begin!
The Good Funeral
One consequence of living several thousand miles from the place you grew up and shifting residences every few years is that the people you care for tend to die at a distance. Once a year or so I get a phone call to inform me that someone I had assumed alive and well has suffered a stroke, or shot himself, or neglected to wake up. Upon hearing such news I usually feel a brief but genuine desire to drop whatever I am doing and fly to the funeral. READ MORE >>
The Case Against 'Abroad'
CLOSE THAT COPY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. IT'S O.K. Clip the coupon below to let Foreign Policy guide you through the next critical year. — Advertisement in Foreign Affairs, Fall 1993 READ MORE >>
The Speculator
I am acting out a fantasy and so is Eastern Europe. A psychiatrist once told me how dangerous it is to act out fantasies and I am beginning to see what he meant. --George Soros READ MORE >>
The Access Capitalists
When you first meet David Rubenstein, you have to force yourself to remember that as a young staffer in the Carter White House he believed that the best thing in the world to be was a public servant. In those days he was known mainly for his unwillingness to go home at night. READ MORE >>
Washington Diarist: Toy Goy
I don't know whether the more esoteric passages of the kabala mention the talismanic importance of blond-headed gentiles, but I would not be surprised if they did. The flaming gentile in the Jewish institution often enjoys a status not so different from a luxury good: the Toy Goy. The Toy Goy has many privileges: he is permitted to slough off before and after (but hexer during) Jewish holidays; to laugh at Jewish jokes around the office: to be as superficial, happy and untroubled as he pleases. READ MORE >>
J-School Confidential
As you walk through the front door of the Columbia School of Journalism, the first thing you see is this paragraph, cast on a bronze plaque: READ MORE >>
The Boy in the Bubble
“The next real opportunity for the American people to get a good glimpse of me will be the 1992 campaign.”—Dan Quayle Tuesday, September 22, 1992. Air Force Two. “This is the vice president.” READ MORE >>
