Word: eurasia
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...handsomely from vastly reduced defense expenditures. But the blessings of a Soviet collapse would certainly be mixed. Just as the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I led to Hitler's brutal exploitation of the resulting power vacuum, so the end of the Pax Sovietica in Eurasia might touch off an ethnic bloodbath among the squabbling successor regimes. For University of Alabama historian Hugh Ragsdale, a Soviet collapse would lead to a disastrous "Balkanization" of Eurasia and the emergence of "dozens of Khomeinis . . . skulking incognito among the Sufis and dervishes of the region." The disappearance of Soviet...
This is a small matter next to the chance for peace on earth or a free Eurasia. But it's a matter of immediate practical import. In the past decade the conservative movement remade the face of American politics. Politics must change if conservatives do. And how can conservatives avoid changing once they don't have Karl Marx to kick around anymore...
Tens of millions have read it, in 62 languages: the story of Winston Smith, a minor bureaucrat in the totalitarian state of Oceania. War with the world's two other superpowers, Eurasia and Eastasia, is constant, although the pattern of hostilities and alliances keeps changing. Smith works at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting old newspaper stories to conform to current Party ideology. He uses the official language, Newspeak, a version of English being pared down to make unorthodox opinions impossible to conceive. Privacy has vanished. Waking and sleeping, Smith and all Party members are observed by two-way telescreens...
Dixon assumes the continents will continue to drift, eventually creating a world that will be far different from today's. Africa, Eurasia, Australia and North America will come together to form a giant continent with new climates and ecosystems; South America will become a huge island. Once man has succeeded in overpopulating the planet and exhausting its resources, as he now seems bent on doing, he will have assured not only his own extinction but that of the species that depend upon him for existence: domestic cattle, for example. Man's departure, concludes Dixon, will allow "evolution...
...literature, the history of Western civilization or the nature of scientific inquiry, the Core offers ten times that many classes on esoteric subjects ranging from the ridiculous ("Comedy and the Novel") to "The Sublime in America"; others, equally confined in scope, include "Nationalism, Religion and Politics in Central Eurasia," "Tuberculosis in the 19th Century," "The Development of the String Quartet," "Chivalric Romances of the Middle Ages" and "The Emancipation of the Jews...