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TPM Cafe: The Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Mon, 07/10/2006 - 9:54pm

The geek in me loves whenever folks manage to combined politics with comic books in new and interesting ways. Case in point: The Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics, in which all it takes for good to triumph over evil is the power of positive thinking. Author Matthew Yglesias argues that makes for a good comic book, but doesn't work so great as a basis for foreign policy.

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