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'Bows of pseudo-profundity' and 'moral certitude': Alan Johnson and Democratiya
Roger Spalding February 1, 2010
The merger of the online journal Democratiya, with Dissent, provides an obvious point to begin assessing the role of Alan Johnson's creation. The following is not intended as the last word on this subject, but as a contribution to a process of analysis. The approach here will be to focus on the argumentation used in Democratiya, specifically in the one article written for the journal by Johnson.
| Winter 2007 | Vol:XI-2 | Whole #: 42 |
Middle East Developments
Stephen R. Shalom
"What we're seeing here, in a sense, is ... the birth pangs of a new Middle East...."
-- Condoleezza Rice, July 21, 2006
| Winter 2008 | Vol:XI-4 | Whole #: 44 |
America's soft power dysfunctions: When Arab problems are allowed to wash up on American shores
Emad El-Din Aysha
Our political organization is thoroughly rotten, almost non-existent. It is Carthagian... Never was there such an absurd waste of power, such ridiculous inconsequence of policy—not for want of men but for want of any effective central authority or dominant idea to make them work together.
André Siegfried, England's Crisis, 1931