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The New York Review of Books In our next issue, Timothy Garton Ash sketches out a hypothesis: that 1989 established a new model of nonviolent revolution that now often supplants, or at least competes with, the older, violent model we associate with 1789.

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An article by Timothy Garton Ash from The New York Review of Books, December 3, 2009
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The New York Review of Books Michael Massing: Columbia, the leading journalism school in the country, has placed its imprimatur on the idea of government funding of the news. What sort of impact might that have?

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Alison Burnett
Alison Burnett
When one finally realizes that this nation's government as well as its traditional press is solidly intrenched in big business ownership, then valid arguments can be made for or against 'bailout' etc.. As for so-called 'left/right bias', you could really define that as no more than the mandated arena within which you are permitted to exercise ... Read Moreyour 'views'. I think it was Jello Biafra who said 'Stop complaining about the press and become the press'. Fortunately, we have Amy Goodman and 'Democracy Now', which is listener funded daily news available online or on listener supported radio stations.
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James Robinson
James Robinson
Jennifer- It's not that the British model is terrible (although it's quite flawed in its own ways), it's that given the level of government interference in the media as it is now I'm especially skeptical of introducing yet another level.

On the other hand, we need to have a functioning media. From where we are sitting right now, that's actually a ... Read Morefairly difficult goal to achieve.

One possible reform would be to require that anything calling itself news had to be truthful. There is currently no such requirement. Even that has a dark side, though, because who gets to determine whether they're being truthful? Propagandists have their own twisted sense of what is "true," or rather what must be accepted as "true."
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The New York Review of Books Peter Brooks on the work of Dominique-Vivant Denon, an artist prized for his travel sketches and engravings.

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The New York Review of Books "Monuments to our wealth and our arrogance": Charles Simic on the US military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Ginster
Ginster
Ramon, thanks for your opinion on that, I do share it!
November 5 at 3:37pm
Ali Karimi
Ali Karimi
according to a 2007 report, american military spends $ 100 millions every 24 hours in afghanistan. if the us government spends 10 percent of this amount wisely in civic sector, can better win the hearts and minds of afghans. winning hearts and minds of people with gun? that is not a good idea - too hollywoodian.
Fri at 6:59pm
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The New York Review of Books Jerome Groopman is talking about the changing medical profession and how economic concerns and technological developments are affecting the training of young doctors.

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Mary Day Lanier
Mary Day Lanier
A very very interesting review of, what sound like, two amazing books. Read it.
November 4 at 5:40pm
Dave Beachley
Dave Beachley
Listen to the Groopman podcast on the website. Very informative and critical of "evidence based" medicine, upon which, it appears, many of the new medical reforms in the healthcarel reform bill, are based.
November 5 at 8:50am
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The New York Review of Books Christian Caryl: Most of the reports about the Pakistani Army’s offensive in Waziristan have mentioned the Islamist extremists from Uzbekistan hiding out there—but they’ve often done so without really explaining what’s up. How did they get there in the first place?

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The New York Review of Books Robert Gottlieb: Your take on Frederick Wiseman’s 'La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet' will depend on your feelings about ballet, about Wiseman, and about the Paris Opera Ballet itself. I start at a disadvantage. The more I see of the company over the years, the less I like it.

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The New York Review of Books Garry Wills on why Obama must pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan, even if it costs him a second term.

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Juan
Juan
I agree. But the British solved their Afghan problem by actively supporting an ethnic Pashtun king, Pashtuns being the only ethnic group capable of stabilizing the Afghan patchwork. They didn't feel the qualms that we today experience about the 'burka' and other affronts to human dignity.
But WHAT is the way to stabilize Afhanistan? To make it a... Read More Central Asian multiethnic confederal 'switzerland' with quasi-independent cantons (if such a solution were viable)? Or to let the most powerful group rule over the entire territory? A federation of 'stans' with a Senate is probably much too complex a solution.
Pundits put out feelers about negotiating with 'moderate talibans'. This is code for acknowledging that without the acquiescence of the Pashtuns no solution is to be found. The Loya Jirga would of course include all tribal leaders, but the Pashtuns are the 'de facto' indispensable group for final success. Their demographic and political 'punch' is greater than that of all the others. And they straddle the border with Pakistan, so their good will seems necessary to stabilize that country also. The fact that some situations may be unwieldy does not exonerate anyone from the responsibility of looking at the problems squarely in the face.
November 4 at 3:09am
Josefina Cano
Josefina Cano
The way to stabilize Afhanistan and Irak is leave them alone!
November 4 at 12:10pm
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The New York Review of Books Jonathan Raban on the life and photographs of Dorothea Lange.

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An article by Jonathan Raban from The New York Review of Books, November 19, 2009
Marc
Marc
Raban is a god!
October 30 at 8:10am
Hiag
Hiag
Interesting article on Dorothea Lange. Always fascinating to read behind-the-scene stories about creative photographers like Lange, how they worked and the obstacles they had to contend with.
October 30 at 8:43am
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The New York Review of Books Orville Schell: I have seen some woeful scenes of industrial apocalypse and pollution in my travels throughout China, but there are very few images that remain vividly in my mind. This is why the photographs of Lu Guang are so important.

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Michelle
Michelle
Without workshops, condition could be worse. Look at Burma: I have seen many aweful scenes there including children sleeping playing living next to filthy (blocked by rotten fish, meat) muddy drain of a market. The drain was their playground. I agree with Clyde. Lessons have been learned. I am in China now and am witnessing improvement every year.
October 29 at 10:12pm
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Edwin Frank, editor of NYRB Classics, will moderate a discussion with filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, film and sound editor Walter Murch, Yale historian and New York Review contributor Timothy Snyder, war correspondent Chris Hedges, and NYU's Chair of Italian Studies, Ruth Ben-Ghiat. The panel will be preceded by a screen...ing of Frederick Wiseman's The Last Letter, a film based on Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. The event is sponsored by The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU and The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies at The New School.Read More

Time:6:00PM Thursday, October 29th
Location:Tishman Auditorium of the New School
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The New York Review of Books James Bamford is talking about the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program.

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The New York Review of Books Joost Hiltermann explains that the horrific twin bombings in Baghdad on October 25 that killed over 150 people must be seen in the perspective of Iraq's deeper political problems.

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The New York Review of Books Joost Hiltermann in Baghdad.

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An article by Joost R. Hiltermann from The New York Review of Books, November 19, 2009
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The New York Review of Books From our forthcoming November 19 issue: Sue Halpern on Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's campaign to make righting "gender inequality in the developing world" the moral battle of the 21st century.

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An article by Sue M. Halpern from The New York Review of Books, November 19, 2009