What two versions of "justice" tell us about our one-superpower world.
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The Curious Cases of Edward Snowden and Robert Seldon Lady
What two versions of "justice" tell us about our one-superpower world.
Excerpt : This is our world: a single megapower has, since September 2001, been in a financing and construction frenzy to create the first global surveillance state; its torturers run free; its kidnappers serve time at liberty in that country and are rescued if they venture abroad; and its whistleblowers-those who would let the rest of us know what that government is doing in our name-are pilloried. And so it goes.
All of it adds up to a way of life and the everyday tradecraft of a one-superpower world. Too bad Alfred Hitchcock isn’t around to remake some of his old classics. Imagine what a thriller The Lady Vanishes would be today.
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The Curious Cases of Edward Snowden and Robert Seldon Lady
What two versions of "justice" tell us about our one-superpower world.
Excerpt : This is our world: a single megapower has, since September 2001, been in a financing and construction frenzy to create the first global surveillance state; its torturers run free; its kidnappers serve time at liberty in that country and are rescued if they venture abroad; and its whistleblowers-those who would let the rest of us know what that government is doing in our name-are pilloried. And so it goes.
All of it adds up to a way of life and the everyday tradecraft of a one-superpower world. Too bad Alfred Hitchcock isn’t around to remake some of his old classics. Imagine what a thriller The Lady Vanishes would be today.
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