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The Clash of Civilizations

If Books Could Kill

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Edward Said's Fargo

A billion of these books were published, right? The fact that this book became so canonical is like more interesting than the book itself. And people latched onto this as like, oh, it's the next justification for us to keep our military this big. There really is this like conservative thing where they need to seek out conflict.

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