Would the USSR and the USA have saved themselves a lot of blood and money in Afghanistan by reading Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King” before going in.
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The U.S. Ignored Kipling’s Cautionary Tale
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Giuliani, a Kiplingesque Fortune Hunter
Rudy Giuliani resembles the fortune hunters in Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King.”
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The Tea Partiers Who Would Be Senators
I was rereading Rudyard Kipling’s entertaining story The Man Who Would Be King the other day, and it got me thinking about some of the Tea Party candidates for Senate, like Sharron Angle in Nevada and Rand Paul in Kentucky. Allow me to explain. Kipling’s 1888 work is about two enterprising good-for-nothings, Dravot and Carnehan, […]
