Sartre has had an enormous effect on geopolitics, although as an American I would never know. His theories on revolution influenced revolutionaries in Algeria, Iran and Egypt, where they were merged with Islam in order to fight repressive governments.

The Life of the Buddha

October 1, 2007

The Life of the Buddha.

Lee Kuan Yew on Charlie Rose

September 30, 2007

I feel like Charlie Rose is an incredibly patronizing and almost irrelevant interviewer, but he manages to let Lee Kuan Yew, the founding prime minister of Singapore, wax a little about the wider world.

President Ahmadinejad address to the UN general assembly.