While many are celebrating the centenary of Ireland’s Easter uprising, Yeats’s famous poem on the rebellion offers us cautions about how to respond to such acts of rebellion today.
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The Terrible Beauty of Political Fanatics
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Egypt’s Coup Is Like Moliere’s “Tartuffe”
The sudden turnabout in Egypt is like the ending of Moliere’s “Tartuffe”–for good and for ill.
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