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But that a man who controls some part of the fate of the world apparently devoted his energies to generating fear, misery, and injustice around him says something about the shape of our world and the values of the nations and institutions that tolerated his behavior and that of men like him.

Men Explain Things to Me

Rebecca Solnit

Americans and Europeans rarely ask themselves whether the widespread popular loathing of Western policy in the Middle East might actually be justified. In America, it is the 444-day hostage situation endured by US diplomats in Tehran from 1979 to 1981 that is seen as the outrage of the era, rather than the self-serving and illegal removal of Mossadegh three decades before. The

Blowback

Michael Lüders

When John Paul II kissed the ground at the Warsaw airport on June 2, 1979, he began the process by which communism in Poland

The Cold War

John Lewis Gaddis

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