Ancient Nomads Offer Insights to Modern Crises
8th August 2007
NYT. Yeah, postmodernism doesn’t cope too well with premedievalism.
“Families, tribes these are the things that matter here,” said Oraz Jandosov, co-chairman of a Kazakhstan opposition political party. “Foreigners talk about these things, but it’s only talk. They don’t understand them.”
Well, some do. But their daddies didn’t go to Harvard — and they’re more likely to be found in the Marine Corps than the State Department.