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There is a booming market for self-improvement guides among Americans eager to redeem themselves from the sins of sloth, gluttony, or general discontent. But what qualifies one person to tell another how best to live?
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Online review culture is dotted with black holes of bad taste.
Three Afghan women write about violence and shelter, the Taliban, and getting to vote.
SHADOW WARRIOR:
William Egan Colby and the CIA.
By Randall B. Woods. Basic Books. 546 pp. $29.99
One after another, arguments that non-Western countries are not “ready” for democracy have been upended by experience.
Recent history in the countries of the former Soviet Union suggests that the appetite for freedom may not be as strong everywhere as we assume.
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America confronts daunting problems, but who would return to 1976?
If Washington seems to get much less done than it once did, it is partly because it is trying to do so much more.
Many nations have aging populations, but none can quite match Japan. Its experience holds lessons for other countries as well as insights into Japanese society.
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