It seems several lifetimes ago that US officials were worrying about fronting up to Vladimir Putin, placing sanctions on foreign leaders to punish them for killing their own people and welcoming huddled masses of refugees into the country. In fact, as it turns out, this sort of crazy stuff was happening just four years ago! And if you don’t believe it, read Samantha Power’s memoir, The Education of an Idealist. It is sobering to reflect how quickly the world has moved on. Equally, Power’s book unintentionally provides several clues as to why this might have happened.

Literary Review

Nov 2019

Categories

Richard Cockett

A Country in Limbo

Model Island?

Killer in Manila

United by a Common Language?

Votes of No Consequence

Selfish Capital

Better Dead Than Red

Rohingya on the Edge

King of Kowloon

Ditching Democracy

Press Gang

War without End

Where Will It End?

The Other Refugee Crisis

Paradise Postponed

No Farewell to Arms

Their Island Story

Another Fine Mess

How Bad Can It Get?

Many Hills to Climb

The Last Days of the Tamil Tigers