70 Year Magazine Archive

The Third World War

by James Burnham

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How to Get Dizzy Over Latin America

Let’s say you are a responsible citizen doing your best to have “an informed opinion” about the things you are told you ought to have an informed opinion about. Right now you are feeling pretty guilty over Fortress America and Our Southern Neighbors. You did your duty last year with Islam and the Middle East, and you were just settling down with the future of Africa. Then those Nixon rocks jarred you out of your dogmatic slumber. While you were gallivanting at the other side of town, you had lost sight of what was going on in your own block. So you draw up a new reading list, and get to work. After all, a responsible man these days doesn’t want to be caught with his opinions down.

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