Summer 2009

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We have come a long way since 1989, that year of miracles when we felt, at least for a brief moment, that something fundamental about human freedom had been decided and that we had seen a permanent greening of the global political environment. History didn’t end twenty years ago, as some prematurely assumed; the clash of ideology became a clash of cultures and we still struggle over issues of threat and response, stability and security. Yet it would be wrong to feel so trapped in the moral grayness of the present that we fail to observe the landmark twenty-year anniversary we celebrate now and take a moment to recall what was accomplished by the inspired mechanics working throughout the 1980s in shop rooms of democracy around the world and how their work resonates today ...
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