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...preachings of the liberal West, Elegant argues, are undermined by the effectiveness of authoritarian Neo-Confucianism from Seoul to Tokyo to Taipei, from Beijing to Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur. Japan's energy comes from a disciplined adherence to the hierarchical loyalties demanded by the ancient philosophy. In Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew reigns as a benevolent but stern patriarch. South Korea prospers because of -- not in spite of -- Park Chung Hee, the dictator who laid the foundations for his country's phenomenal economic expansion. Though Elegant does not quite make the argument, the Confucian ethic, with its emphasis on obedience...
...that a liberal would never get another chance to blow 49 states in a presidential election. Guided by "neoliberals" like Senators Sam Nunn and Chuck Robb, armed with a raft of fiscally responsible Mr. Goodwrench programs, the D.L.C. is dedicated to yanking the party back to the middle. But neo, the prefix that was supposed to make liberalism safe for Democrats again, has instead made them boring. If a liberal is someone with his feet firmly planted in the air, a neo-liberal is the deadweight tethering him to the ground. Problems liberals were accused of throwing money at -- like...
Like what? A neo-Stalinist backlash in the U.S.S.R. restarts the cold war and threatens a hot one? Or a secessionist warlord in Belorussia grabs some nuclear weapons from Soviet stockpiles and brandishes them? Or Hungary presses revanchist claims to Transylvania? Astonishing developments might not always be as welcome as they were last year. The Administration's warning is deliberately vague. It invites listeners to fill in the blank with their own worst fears. The American manifesto for the '90s is that a specter is haunting Europe, the specter of "unpredictability" and "instability." Those were the words that Bush used...
...bunch of neo-Nazis acting out pre-pubescent fantasies," Hornstein says, decrying what he says is one of the worst misconceptions of ROTC students...
...nationalists defy easy classification. The Russian Patriotic Movement peddles pictures of Czar Nicholas II and newspapers promoting the monarchy as the "only guarantee for liquidating the vices of the communist years of evil." Other groups include the pro-communist United Front of Workers. What unites the monarchists and the neo-Stalinists is opposition to Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms. As literary critic Vladimir Bondarenko puts it, "Russia does not need perestroika. Russia needs a revival...