By: L.R.
In the spirit of “Just Plain Dumb,” I have to add an item to the pile. This is from the Report’s back-page “To Be Governed…” section: “ALL THOSE WHOâ??D LIKE TO LIVE IN RWANDA, CUBA, OR VIETNAM, RAISE...
View ArticleBy: Tom G. Palmer
I don’t quite understand the puzzlement. The Parade remark seemed to imply that Rwanda, Vietnam and Cuba were somehow superior to the U.S. I don’t see why it’s not an insight to suggest that, perhaps,...
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On the contrary, “as well as Rwanda, Vietnam and Cuba” works as a rhetorical device precisely *because* those are so often considered (correctly, of course) generally miserable places. It would be no...
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That’s a fair point, but I think that the editor was pointing to the lumping of them those countries with the others. It’s not all that far from what seems to be your take on the issue. The “Gender...
View ArticleBy: L.R.
I see your point (Rwanda is a democracy, though). I think that whoever sent Parade those statistics was making a point not about the relative desirability of living in those countries but the distance...
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