Posted June 24th, 2009 by Alan Davidson
By MAURICE ISSERMAN
If there is a heaven, and it has a place for virtuous skeptics, I imagine Michael Harrington is looking down, amused by the recent cover of Newsweek proclaiming, “We Are All Socialists Now,” not to mention Newt Gingrich’s lament that the United States is seeing “European socialism transplanted to Washington.” Back in the [...]
Posted June 23rd, 2009 by Alan Davidson
By ROGER COHEN
This is an updated version of an earlier column, Iran’s Children of Tomorrow.
TEHRAN — They gathered, the women in black, at Nilofar Square to mourn Neda Agha Soltan, the Iranian student cut down by a single bullet, whose last moments were captured on a video that has gone global.
I sat among the mourners [...]
Posted June 22nd, 2009 by Alan Davidson
By EDWARD WONG
DHARAMSALA, India — Lobsang Gyatso and his fellow Tibetan monks had been biding their time, walking around the main square of the monastery nestled in the barren hills of northwestern China. Now the moment had arrived.
As a group of 20 foreign and Chinese journalists climbed out of minivans, Lobsang and the other monks [...]
Posted June 17th, 2009 by Alan Davidson
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Posted June 16th, 2009 by Alan Davidson
By ANDREW JACOBS
SHANGHAI — It was shortly after the “hot body” contest and just before a painted procession of Chinese opera singers took the stage that the police threatened to shut down China’s first gay pride festival. The authorities had already forced the cancellation of a play, a film screening and a social mixer, so [...]
