We praise democracy most of the time, but we practice it as if we had accepted every argument against it, as if we believed it must depress the level of culture and of public life
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Anthony SwoffordAnthony Swofford is the author of Jarhead: a marine’s chronicle of the Gulf war and other battles. He served in a United States marine corps platoon during the 1991 Gulf War. He has taught at Lewis & Clark College and Saint Mary’s College. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, and the Guardian. Recent articlesAmerica through an Iraqi lens How wide is the gap between Americans and Iraqis? In the twelfth of our Letters to Americans series, Iraqi blogger and mother of three sons, Faiza Al-Araji, writes to Anthony Swofford, ex-US marine and author of the 1991 Gulf war memoir, “Jarhead”. |
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