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`Manifest Duplicity'

`Manifest Duplicity’

August 7, 2000 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Nation.

BLOWBACK: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire. By Chalmers Johnson. Metropolitan. 268 pp. $26. Some Sundays back, the New York Times fronted a story from its Paris correspondent, Suzanne Daley, about the fear and loathing Americans induce among Europeans…

The Indigenous and the Imported: Khatami's Iran

The Indigenous and the Imported: Khatami’s Iran

June 7, 2000 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Washington Quarterly

Culture is what remains when one no longer believes in Utopia. —Farhad Khosrokhavar and Oliver Roy Comment sortir d’une revolution religieuse1 At the bar of my hotel in Tehran—or what used to be the bar in officially dry, postrevolutionary Iran—I sip…

Letter from Iran

Letter from Iran

February 28, 2000 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Nation.

In a gritty neighborhood of South Teheran not long ago, Iran’s animated opposition movement gathered at a mosque to mark a grim occasion. It was November 23, 2000 a year since state security agents assassinated Dariush Foruhar, the longtime leader…

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