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Daily Archives: November 19, 2019

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“They Have Minds of Their Own”

Advocacy, Foreign ServiceBy Donald M. BishopNovember 19, 2019

In a few sentences, an older Public Diplomacy officer gave me a key insight about many of the “isms” since the French Revolution – Jacobinism, Marxism, militarism, fascism, Communism, and Islamism among them.  And it came from his study of inanimate machines.  Here’s the story: In 1985, Arthur J. McTaggart (1915-2003) — a USIA officer…

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