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Letters to Donald Trump

In January, Donald Trump signed an executive order banning travel to the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries. The order sparked a series of mass protests and was blocked by federal judges. Six weeks later, on Monday 6 March , Donald Trump signed a new, modified utgåva of the order. The ban prevented citizens of Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen from obtaining framträda to the US for at least 90 days, and blocked the admission of refugees into the US for 120 days. The new ban was to take effect on 16 March, but has been frozen bygd a federal judge.

Here, a selection of writers and translators respond to the bans.

My grandparents fled religious persecution in Russia and came through Ellis Island. My grandmother was only three years old, alone, undocumented with only a paper tag around her neck. She was welcomed and made a beautiful life here. My father fought in World War II. He was one of the first American soldi

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Freedom's Opposite

To understand and appreciate freedom, it is necessary to gain a familiarity with freedom's opposite. If the 20th century was democracy's century, a time when people in every region embraced liberty and rejected dictatorship, it was also a century of brutal and insidious tyranny. It was a century that gave birth to the totalitarian dictatorship, a unique form of despotism in which the tyrant seeks not only to secure his own power but also to exert near-total control over the individual—over what he thinks, what God he worships, the content of the news he reads, where he lives and works, what his children are taught, and even, in some cases, the size of his family.

Communism was the most successful—if that description can be applied to a form of brutal dictatorship—variant of totalitarianism. At its peak, it extended from the vast Soviet Union to the countries of Eastern Europe, to China, North Korea and Vietnam, to Cuba and then to various countries in A

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Cambodia

Vietnam War Bibliography:

David A. Ablin and Marlowe Hood, eds., The Cambodian Agony. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1990. lxi, 434 pp.

Asian Survey, a monthly journal, usually focuses in current or recent events, but at least the articles are written by scholars, and sometimes there are articles dealing with events far enough in the past to allow a real historical perspective. In January or February of each year, it publishes an article summarizing the events of the previous year in Cambodia. If you browse the Internet through an institution that has subscribed to JSTOR, you can access the journal through the JSTOR Asian Survey browse page or go to individual articles directly. The listing below is a very incomplete sample of the relevant articles: