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This was a surreal experience, given that, in his 2004 novel, The Plot Against America, Roth
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described the sinister and chilling nightmare in which the United States now finds itself.
Of course, Roth’s novel and today’s situation are not
precisely
comparable.
Indeed, whereas West Germany banned a neo-Nazi party and the Communist Party in the 1950’s, some countries –particularly in Southern and Eastern Europe, where dictatorship came to be associated with the suppression of pluralism – have drawn
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the opposite lesson about preventing authoritarianism.
As the Peterson Institute of International Economics highlighted last month, the negative impact would be felt most strongly by low-skill, low-income workers –
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the people who are most convinced that less trade is a good thing.
Precisely
when Israel managed to domesticate the Palestinian national movement by forcing it to abandon its revolutionary path in favor of state-building and economic development – a reorientation undertaken by Zionism as well – the Israelis decided to draw the Palestinians back to the fundamentals of the conflict.
Although Belgium recently followed the Dutch way of regulating voluntary active euthanasia in a strictly medicalized framework, it is
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this sort of regulation that is increasingly challenged.
The resulting tension risks stifling debate ahead of the upcoming election,
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when the free exchange of opinions is of the utmost importance.
Like most companies at the time, BP was accustomed to communicating with traditional seats of power – the White House, the Kremlin, and so on – and to doing so via traditional modes of communication, such as briefing carefully selected journalists and distributing
precisely
worded press releases.
Two neighbors in Europe, Germany and France, are showing the way forward – or, more precisely, the alternative ways forward – to a low-carbon future.
Higher tariffs fragment markets and limit trade,
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because companies want to reduce the taxes they pay – and allocate production accordingly around the world.
But this is
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the point.
It is a valid assumption – and
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the reason why SOEs should notbe given preferential regulatory treatment.
In the regulatory school where I was trained – the Bank of England – we were told never to use that fatal phrase, for fear of generating
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the moral hazard we wished to avoid.
Many gain a foothold in a new community by taking jobs that are available
precisely
because locals do not want them.
Precisely
because of this, “forbidden” music was politicized.
More and more, Israel began to be infected by
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the type of politics most Jews have traditionally feared, especially ethnic nationalism.
But this is
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why punishment should be a matter for the criminal justice system, which guarantees due process in a way that a government office following vague criteria cannot.
To be sure, many outsiders claim that radicalization was not inevitable, and that it occurred
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because external powers like the US failed to intervene earlier and more forcefully.
Highly efficient algorithmic decision-making has brought such questions to the fore, forcing us to decide
precisely
which outcomes should be maximized.
But such a deal became impossible
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because the Intifada had raised Palestinian expectations to such heights that it became impossible for Israel to meet them.
Belgium, after all, became an independent state in 1830,
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in order to liberate the Catholic Flemish, as well as the Walloons, from being second-class subjects in a Protestant Dutch monarchy.
Otherwise, what, precisely, do the new countries get out of membership other than the nagging intrusions of the Brussels bureaucracy?
Indeed, this is
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what happened with the Russians: the most qualified have already gone to the US.
Unfortunately, that is
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what America is lacking.
Part of it is
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that it is no longer the 1960's and 1970's: Berlusconi is 40 years older and for the past ten years has lived in the world of Roman politics.
The big demographic shift that began right after World War II was
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why...taxes were raised and benefits were cut [in 1983] – to build up a trust fund surplus so benefits could be paid.”
Even worse, the Bank advocated user fees and “cost recovery” for health services, thereby putting life-saving health care beyond the reach of the poorest of the poor –
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those most in need of it.
In 2000, at the Durban AIDS Summit, I recommended a new “Global Fund” to fight these diseases,
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on the grounds that the World Bank was not doing its job.
But it is
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the EU’s desire to look more and more like a nation-state that has pushed its position on the Arab-Israeli conflict in the wrong direction.
That is
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why these violations must be made costly: to signal to Israeli voters that the cost of occupation is bound to rise.
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