Dreaming of democracy
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Iraqi dissident Kanan Makiya's pseudonymous book "Republic of Fear," published before the first Gulf war, exposed the brutality of Saddam Hussein's regime. His idealistic program for Iraq following the current war is troubled by the many interests vying against each other for supremacy.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2003
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Smart-mobbing the war: Eli Pariser and other young antiwar organizers are the first to be using wired technologies as weapons, but some of the old difficulties won't go away
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Eli Pariser's Feb 26, 2003 'Virtual March on Washington' used the Web to instantly organize hundreds of thousands of antiwar activists into a 'smart mob' through his moveon.org organization.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2003
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Recapturing the flag: a generation of liberal skeptics now knows the deep emotions of patriotism
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Patriotism, absent from overt US politics for a decade, has reemerged as a central theme, even for American liberals. William James's "The Moral Equivalent of War" is excerpted and cited.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
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