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Any sense that history trends in a general direction—toward freedom, perhaps, or toward rights, markets, secularism, or science—is confounded by a large, prosperous country becoming a hard-line semi-theocracy.
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Any sense that history trends in a general direction is confounded by a large prosperous country becoming a hard-line semi-theocracy
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- February 15, 2026 at 2:44 PM (2 months ago)
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/11/king-of-kings-the-iranian-revolution-scott-anderson-book-review
A New Yorker article reviews Scott Anderson's book, "King of Kings," examining the Iranian Revolution. The review explores the role of key figures like the Shah and Khomeini, and considers counterfactuals about the revolution's causes.
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