As of today, The Atlantic Monthly website is free to all visitors. Now you can go back and read all those old articles by Bob Kaplan. They still charge for some of their archives which date back to November 1857.
Actually, this story broke yesterday on the NYT which took down its wall a few months ago. I am still waiting on the Globe and Mail.
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Kim added these pithy words on 23 Jan 08 at 10:04 amMe too! I stopped reading the G&M when it went to a subscription based service.
Hunter added these pithy words on 23 Jan 08 at 11:57 amSpeaking of walls coming down:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1200572523339&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Aceface added these pithy words on 23 Jan 08 at 1:04 pmReading James Fallows past articles….
Man,he is a prick.Read this.
To me the most striking difference(between Japan and China as he sees them) was cultural and moralistic:
specifically,Japan’s cocksureness.Japan and many neighboring nations saw its rise as a challenge to the American idea,and they didn’t care who knew it.No one thinks that today’s China lacks cultural confidence.By now I should have programmed auto-text keys to use when transcribing interviews,so as that I can plug in the rote passage about “our 5000 years of history”or”the world’s largest continuous civilization”with one stroke.But I have encountered virtually no lecturing from Chinese friends,officials,students,passerby,or interviewees.http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200711/american-ideal
Either he is living in alter universe or I’m meeting completely different Chinese(when was the last time I wasn’t lectured from them).And don’t let me even start with “Japan’s cocksureness”.But then again this is coming from a guy who advocated “Containing Japan” 20 years ago…
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