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Civilization and Barbarism

By William Kristol
Published April 19, 2013 1:30pm ET
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Civilization and Barbarism
And now, what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?They were, those people, a kind of solution. How many times in the last century have these concluding lines of C. P. Cavafy’s famous 1898 poem, “Waiting for the Barbarians,” been quoted? How many modern intellectuals have pondered the subversive implications of that sophisticated question? It’s an […]
And now, what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?They were, those people, a kind of solution.

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