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…with their personal ones. This is why authoritarian capitalism may be just a phase, rather than a viable alternative to Western democracy. To be sure, once the basic issues of food and security have been addressed, pace Mill and Berlin, democracy retains a better possibility of...

29 run they’re doing better than the United States without having these Western institutions. The real challenge is the long-run sustainability of that system, or of the two systems. And looking at that in the long- run, I would still bet on the West, with its rule of law and sy...

…h. He decided to join them. Late in 1932, the Jewish National Fund, supported financially by leading Jewish figures in western Europe and the US, bought 2,000 acres from an Arab landowner near Wadi Khawaret. The area was set aside for three Jewish settlements: a moshav called Kf...

…ero will be very hard to stop once it gains momentum. The second goal would require reversing the current trend in some Western countries where sectors of the population are getting poorer in absolute terms, fueling anger, resentment, and polarization. Unless the third goal can b...

…cello repertoire, coming together with colleagues for chamber music or exploring cultures and musical forms outside the Western classical tradition, Mr. Ma strives to find connections that stimulate the imagination. One of Mr. Ma’s goals is the exploration of music as a means of...

…ould place the United States and Iran at the center of more or less structured coalitions of the marginally willing. A Western coalition could consist of the United States and most of its traditional allies (but very likely not Turkey, based on the evolution of Turkish politics)...

…university started the investiga- tion after being contacted by Buz- zFeed. Dr. Krauss moved to Arizona State from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio in 2008. Lawrence M. Krauss is direc- tor of Arizona State's Origins Project, a multidisciplinary re- search effort to tackle...

…ficant part of a think-tank analyst’s job is to influence official and public opinion—and the media, whether Chinese or Western, is an essential part of that process. Think-tank analysts are under no illusion, however, that the Chinese media can be trusted to present their ideas...

… had already broken the main resistance of the Syrians, but fighting was continuing in a few parts of the Golan. In the western corner of the Heights which bordered Lebanon, several villages still lay beyond the Israeli advance. We got an order to see if we could take them. It to...

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…try to help break the siege there, and the division of Jerusalem at the end of the war, leaving us with only its newer, western half. And while I may not have read the Torah in the same way as a religiously observant Jew, the meaning of Jerusalem was no less powerful for me. It w...

…ents put on by US think tanks in Washington, using the events as press conferences and to pose leading questions. While Western reporters are not immune to this type of behavior, the Chinese media undertake such distortions in a far more systematic manner, with a pointed politica...

…ow either delayed or abandoned. The good news is that our involvement in a 1,000 acre development on Deep Creek Lake in western Maryland is in the process of being financed and should be underway sometime this summer. Our second project is a 405 acre development in Harper’s Ferry...

… way in from the eastern side of the pass. A small group from the reconnaissance force managed to get a foothold on the western side. Almost 250 Egyptians were killed. But 38 Israeli paratroopers also died, the largest single toll in any battle since 1948. Battered and bitter, th...

…ithout costs and casualties. Most of the Palestinians, however, had retreated north to their de facto capital, the southwestern neighborhoods of Beirut. The idea of a ground assault — street-to- street battles in an area packed with fighters, weapons and tens of thousands of civi...