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Ariel Dorfman

Ariel Dorfman (adorfman.duke.edu), a Chilean-American writer who teaches at Duke University, is the author of the forthcoming Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile. Last year he delivered the Mandela Lecture in South Africa.

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Martin Luther King and the Two 9/11s (Civil Rights Activism, Social Justice, World)

Dr. King’s words in a world awash with surveillance. 

Ariel Dorfman
Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile (History, World)

Returning to Chile decades after Allende’s death, I was no longer a soldier of the revolution. What changed?

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Salvador Allende Has Words for Barack Obama From the Other Side of Death (Barack Obama, US Politics, World)

As the 2012 election draws closer, what can Obama learn from the many battles of Chile's most famous president?

Ariel Dorfman
Epitaph for Another September 11 (History, World)

Chile and the United States offer contrasting models of how to react to a collective trauma.

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Nelson Mandela: Conversations With a Myth (World Leaders, World)

In his new memoir the South African leader struggles to overcome his image as a saint.

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Lessons of a Catastrophe (Regions and Countries)

Chile was a democracy, yet tyranny triumphed--in the name of fighting
terror.

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Letter to America (Philosophy)

My hope: empathy, compassion, the capacity to imagine that you are not unique

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