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What The Ancient Sanskrit “Yayati Syndrome” Says About Why Old Men Cling To Power

Everywhere stars rise to power as charismatic demagogues and risk-takers, but these very qualities breed in them an implacable desire to control all power and push away all they see as worthy replacements.

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A Revolution Without A Revolutionary Party – The Limits Of Egypt’s Secular Opposition

-OpEd- CAIRO – I believe the presence of armed gangs and the incidents of rape during Tahrir Square protests represent a serious problem. I do not just sympathize with the victims: women and revolutionaries who were, and still are, subjected to wide-scale suppression or abuse. I am concerned about two issues; the first of them […]

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