“... context or to understand the sequence of events that led up to it. Even though the American people may not know what has been done in their name, those on the receiving end certainly do: they include the people of Iran (1953), Guatemala (1954), Cuba (1959 to the present), Congo (1960), Brazil (1964), Indonesia (1965), Vietnam (1961-73), Laos ...”

“... and went to prison twice for robbing banks.– Married her first husband, Matthew Porter, 17 May 2008. Later divorced.– Won the 2010 Iowa Poetry Prize for her grad thesis, A Little Middle of the Night.– Published Bandit: A Daughter’s Memoir with Grove Atlantic (2016).– Married me 11 May 2017.– Founded her ...”

“... and also provides the object which acts as the determining purpose of production.’ Supply may not create its own demand, but we know by now that demand – demand, at least, for oil and gas – calls forth ample supply. We also know that political initiatives of sufficient scale and visibility in the realm of consumption can help, however modestly, in ...”

“... the English ‘occluded’ Scotland because they regarded it as integral to the British project may be more attractive than historical because it draws on unionist assumptions she also wants us to resist. Most historians would say that Scotland was ignored as long as it was no threat to wealthier, populous England. Although Elizabeth enabled a series of ...”

“... argument has been overstated, and indeed that the grasping materialism of the campaign’s message may have backfired; but he also provides a new perspective on two underappreciated factors, both of which reinforced the SNP’s ability to speak for the nation against central government.The first was Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. By ...”

“... and Bloom’s faltering response to the prejudice he encounters genuinely heroic. Bloom may lack the ancient military virtues, but he possesses the secular qualities of ‘prudence, intelligence, sensitivity and good will’. And he is kind to animals.– Milk for the pussens, he said.– Mrkgnao! the cat cried.They call them stupid. They understand ...”

“... 34 seasons, were dedicated to the subject. Buckley argued on air that however kindly Ho Chi Minh may have seemed in the 1940s, the sheer number of Vietnamese people seeking refuge from repression south of the 17th parallel surely justified US intervention on humanitarian as well as anti-communist grounds (this argument proved influential on the human rights ...”

“... New political ideas and movements have never arisen from the mass media, although the media may have been important in spreading knowledge about these developments. At its best, the press has been able to influence opinion, but it has never enjoyed the power to determine the course of events, or the way people think. Nonetheless, one of the popular ...”

“... usually welcome. What then of Japan? Christianity did take there. By the early 17th century, there may have been 700,000 adherents in a population of about 18 million. But these (most of them Catholics) put their God before the emperor. In 1612, Tokugawa Ieyasu accordingly banned the religion, and was taken seriously. In 1637-38, at Shimabara, 13,000 proud ...”

“... from Oscar Wilde, who was 15 years his senior and, for a brief but crucial period, a friend. Wilde may have said he put his genius into his life and merely his talent into his art: what is indisputable is that he was careful to keep them well apart. Nothing Wilde wrote is directly autobiographical except De Profundis. Gide, on the other hand, published his ...”

“... these officials on a strategy which is wholly unfamiliar to them and of which, to begin with, they may understand little. For that reason, above all others, it is essential that the strategies adopted by these institutions are debated more widely and more knowledgeably. Both Jonathan Steele’s book and John Gray’s essay sharpen a critique which has so far ...”

“... succession there once again predominated the cares of actually existing immortality.’ One may well find this second section episodic, and something of an indulgence on Grass’s part, his own licence to comment on a variety of topical events, from television culture to the assassination of the Treuhand chief Rohwedder: repetitive as well, since we ...”

“... by capitalism. Berger also notes, pointedly, that however conservative Millet’s perspective may have been, he nonetheless foresaw that ‘the market created by industrialisation, to which the peasantry was being sacrificed, might one day entail the loss of all sense of history. This is why for Millet the peasant came to stand for man, and why he saw his ...”

“... punishment had to bear a large part of the burden of deterrence. Radishes and on-the-spot killings may have been rare occurrences, but they were vivid and must have been hard for adulterers to ignore. How on earth can an adulterer keep it up, asks one character in a comedy, when he suddenly remembers Draco’s law? In some cases it looks as if the severity of ...”