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I’m chary of speaking too confidently about South Africa: my impression of things is pieced together from fragments of reportage and testimony.
“More Roman than any Englishman had ever been,” went one panegyric from the 1920s
the first time I had a real chance not to be complicit with evil, I found I had a staggering gift for casuistry
Mic, or Uproxx, or Occupy Democrats, or some other part-time semiotic organization, analyzing the meaning and implications of Clinton’s A/B-tested not-quite-remarks