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Latin AmericaFebruary 27, 2019
Salvador Allende le ofrece una salida a Maduro
El fallecido presidente chileno comparte algunos consejos desde más allá de la tumba.
Ariel Dorfman
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Latin AmericaFebruary 25, 2019
Gen. Simón Bolívar, Latin America’s Liberator, Has Advice for the US Military
Trump may be an awful president, but the military has no more right to overthrow him in a coup than he does to overthrow Maduro.
Ariel Dorfman
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Latin AmericaFebruary 11, 2019
Salvador Allende Offers a Way Out for Venezuela’s Maduro
Chile’s dead president has some advice from beyond the grave.
Ariel Dorfman
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Racism and DiscriminationJuly 10, 2018
How Will History Judge Donald Trump’s ‘Human Zoos’?
If the past is any indication: not well.
Ariel Dorfman
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Latin AmericaSeptember 14, 2017
What a 1970s Chilean Satire Can Tell Us About Donald Trump
How to Read Donald Duck has some surprising insights to reveal in 2017.
Ariel Dorfman
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Books and IdeasMay 10, 2017
What Herman Melville Can Teach Us About the Trump Era
He would point out that what plagues us are the sins of the past coming home to roost: America’s tolerance of bigotry and blindness to its own faults.
Ariel Dorfman
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April 16, 2015
Remembering Günter Grass
Ariel Dorfman talks morality and the legacy of a literary giant
Ariel Dorfman
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Books and IdeasMarch 23, 2015
Separated at Birth
The Nation and Alice in Wonderland were born within days of each other. In this seditious reading, they rejoin the dance.
Ariel Dorfman
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National SecurityDecember 17, 2014
What Does it Feel Like to Be Tortured?
Unless you’ve experienced it, you can never really know. Here are five books that come closest to conveying the horror.
Ariel Dorfman
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US Wars and Military ActionJune 17, 2014
How to Forgive Your Torturer
Eric Lomax was captured and tortured by the Japanese during World War II. Forty years later, he tracked down the man responsible.
Ariel Dorfman