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In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not lead to a higher standar...more

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People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it....more

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There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president belongs. From t...more

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Madeleine Albright has said that there is 'a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.' What are the implications of this statement? ...more

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Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be right. (The British Empire sent ...more

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Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Th...more

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Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself strongly with the attitude expressed by Rosa Luxemb...more