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Kenelm Tonkin's avatar

This polemic forces the reader to judge the eroded liberal democracies of the West with Russia, a dictatorship. The gap, it seems, is uncomfortably narrow and closing. The provocations of this piece confront libertarians of the West on the need to do better.

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Bernie Masters's avatar

One has to hope that, having migrated to Russia, you won't be thrown out of a hotel window for something you said that could be interpreted as criticism of the peace-loving Putin!

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