The Specter of Capitalism

The rulers of the capitalist world who came to Paris for the bicentennial celebrations last month were in a smug mood.

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Creeping Capitalism

Europe’s landscape is changing–dramatically in its Eastern half, which is groping toward capitalism, and less spectacularly in the Western part, which is on the road to a single market.

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Fast Forward

The sorcerer’s apprentices could not even stage a coup.

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Something Rotten in the Kingdom

When in London, if you have some time to spare, go east to the Isle of Dogs to visit what was to have been Europe’s biggest office-plus-housing project.

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Algeria Slides Into Civil War

Voici le temps des assassins, the bilingual Algerians could exclaim, echoing Rimbaud, when nearly a year ago, their intellectuals began to be slaughtered by Islamic fundamentalists.

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Supping With the French Devil

Cartoonists can beat journalists at their own game of first oversimplifying and then exaggerating.

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Does the Left Have a Future?

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Le Pen’s Pals–Blood and Soil

There are two unmistakable signs that France is entering a pre-electoral period: The government is once again tinkering with the electoral law and the politicians, particularly the leaders of the

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La Peste

Paris

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The End of History

In 1996, Gore Vidal narrated his debacle defending the programs he wrote for the History Channel, which dealt with on the imperial aspects latent in the American presidency, to a panel of corporate media.

Gore Vidal