Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Want to be geopolitically smarter?

Read great literature. Patrick Kurp talks about Murray Kempton, and Chekhov as a guide to the Soviet Union, and Conrad's Nostromo as a guide to Central America: I Read It in the Paper.
Kempton is right. Literature provides insight into precisely the matters that tend to elude politicians and political scientists - and journalists.

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