To Counter Iran Effectively, the U.S. Must Beat It at Its Own Game
Tehran emerged as the winner of the Arab Spring.
December 21, 2017
He managed to move from the craven to the courageous.
In the midst of a long essay on the French poet Paul Valéry and his 1917 masterpiece La Jeune Parque (“Young Fate”), Paul Berman addresses his subject’s politics and attitude toward the Jews. Valéry, living through the Dreyfus Affair, the growth of French anti-Semitism after World War I, and then the Holocaust, couldn’t be ambivalent about the Jew’s fate:
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Login or SubscribeTehran emerged as the winner of the Arab Spring.
The security dilemma.
Two-thousand years later, and it’s still not the right time?
Doggedly universalistic, obligation-free, and relentlessly focused on self-revelation.
He managed to move from the craven to the courageous.