When Paul Findley was a student at Illinois College in the early years of World War II, he read a book called Union Now by Clarence K. Streit, a New York Times reporter who had covered the fall of the League of Nations. Streit advocated the joining of democracies in the North Atlantic, not in […]
Patrick Arden
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Bombay Invasion
I saw the most popular Indian film of 1997 in an art-deco movie palace in Calcutta. The actors spoke Hindi, and the film wasn’t subtitled, but I could still figure out what was going on. That’s because the movie Judaai lifted its plot from the Hollywood tearjerker Indecent Proposal. In Indecent Proposal a billionaire playboy […]
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The War at Home
On Sunday, March 16, George W. Bush flew home from the Azores Islands for a “last day of diplomacy” before starting his war against Iraq. The next day in Peoria, Illinois, Robert Wood faced a war of his own. “There are no jobs,” complained Wood, a 41-year-old general contractor, as he stood outside the office […]
