BY SUSAN ESTRICH In the first days of the demonstrations in Egypt, almost everyone I know was glued to their television. Many of them were caught up in what they saw as the romanticism of the moment: students and young people in the streets, willing to risk their lives to stand up to a tyrannical regime and replace it with a democracy. Irresistible. Television anchors jumped on planes to report from the middle of the […]
Romantic Revolutions
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