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Vanessa Neumann
Dr Vanessa Neumann is a political philosopher who is editor-at-large of Diplomat magazine.
With Friends Like These
Frenemies are useful and often do lovely things for each other: give great gifts, throw fab parties in each other’s “honour.”
Chavez doesn't fool me
As commentators wet their pants at the Chávez-Obama rapprochement, I want to spit with rage at their naïveté.
Rage against the machines
The scantily clad models and hip-shaking dancers ordinarily have an easy time of it with an adoring crowd. Not so in 2009.
Hunting out the WAGs
I looked like I’d been plucked from a shooting party. The other girls looked like they’d been plucked from St. Moritz.
Easter for one and all
Even Christmas is not as respected and celebrated. It’s comforting to have something so nearly-universal.
Obama's Prague spring
His speech is the opening gambit in a strategy far removed from the naïve idealism often attributed to him.
The politics of disasters
‘All politics is local,’ goes an old refrain. So, apparently, is human suffering.
I predicted a riot
Perhaps that is what is most surprising about this revolution: it’s not from the bottom up, but from the middle out.
A new model for the left
‘Give Time time,’ they say in Spanish, for time will heal all wounds and reveal new options if you just let it ride.
I twitter therefore I am
The unbelievable growth of Facebook and Twitter has opened up quandaries of truth, identity and safety.
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