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An affirming flame: meditations on life and politics
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Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date
2023.
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book - First edition.
One clear conscience, sixty years after Auschwitz
The Polish seminary student and the Jewish girl he saved
China versus U.S: democracy confronts harmony. Stay tuned
The MacArthur lunch
Downtime for murder
Terror and demons
A once and future nation
Bamiyan's Buddhas revisited
Obama's American idea
Beyond conspiracy, progress
Here comes Kosovo
Karadĩ and war's lessons
In the seventh year
The king is dead
Iran's day of anguish
A supreme leader loses his aura as Iranians flock to the streets
A journalist's "actual responsibility"
The meaning of life
Advantage France
The magic mountain
A Mideast truce
A Jew in England
Chinese openings
A woman burns
The glory of Poland
Modern odysseys
Change or perish
A republic called Tahrir
My Libya, your Libya, our Libya
The force of the deed
The beauty of institutions
France's glorious malaise
Cry for me, Argentina
The unlikely road to war
In search of home
From death into life
China's Monroe doctrine
Gettysburg on the maidan
Poor angry, magnetic Europe
Zionism and its discontents
Truths of a French village
The community of expulsion
The consolations of Italy
Western illusions over Ukraine
The vast realm of "if"
Of catfish wars and shooting wars
Counterrevolutionary Russia
Battered Greece and tis refugee lesson
Obama's doctrine of restraint
Obama's what next?
The danger of placing your chips on beauty
Trump's Weimar America
The assassination in Israel that worked
Ways to be free
Syria's white rose
An anti-semitism of the Left
The map of my life
Britain's Brexit leap in the dark
My daughter the Pole
We need "somebody spectacular": views from Trump country
How dictatorships are born
Broken men in paradise
Trump's many shades ot contempt
Sons without fathers
Daydreaming in Germany
Myanmar is not a simple morality tale
The year not to defer dreams
Holy City of sterile streets
One honorable American's love of Trump
Death penalty madness in Alabama
Trump's world and the retreat of shame
How democracy became the enemy
The insanity at the Gaza fence
"The chronicles of Nambia", or why Trump knows nothing of Africa
Of course, it could not happen here
McCain and a requiem for the American century
An injudicious man, unfit for the Supreme Court
The barbarians are within
Amos Oz's rebuke to cowardice
Why I am a European patriot
"Everyone here knows Trump hates brown people"
Jeremy Corbyn's anti-semitic Labour Party
Trump and conscience in the age of demagogues
A cathedral for a fragile age
Robert Mueller in the age of the unicorn
"Here there is nothing"
Reflections on the graduation of my daughter
Steve Bannon is a fan of Italy's Donald Trump
The lessons of Paris and the violence of hope
Richard Holbrooke and a certain idea of America
Trump's inhumanity before a victim of rape
Lost and found in Hemingway's Spain
Two deaths and my life
Requiem for a dream
A silent Spring is saying something
There is no way out but through
Come back, New York, all is forgiven
Despotism and democracy in the age of the virus
no return to "the old dispensation"
The masked versus the unmasked
President Trump is a doughnut
"Get your knee off our necks"
The outcry over "both sides" of journalism
"Let freedom ring" from Georgia
Last testiment of Maurice the rooster
The most dangerous phase of Trump's rule
The tenacity of the Fraco-American ideal
Fighting the virus in Trump's plague
Trump's Corona coronation
Trump's last stand for white America
Freedom as the muzzle of a Glock
The peope versus Donald Trump
Au revoir but not adieu
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9780593321522
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