I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the National Geographic tracing service and there it all is: the arrow moving northward from the African savannah, skirting the Mediterranean by way of the Levant, and passing through Eastern and Central Europe before crossing to the British Isles. And all of this knowable by an analysis of the cells on the inside of my mouth.

I almost prefer the more rambling and indirect and journalistic investigation, which seems somehow less… deterministic.

Christopher Hitchens

Tags: determinism history africa investigation journalism ancestry genetics genealogy british-isles central-europe eastern-europe levant mediterranean-sea national-geographic savanna sub-saharan-africa

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Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terrorism, the present danger of Soviet advance, the hypocrisy of the United Nations, the unreliability of Europe, the perfidy of the Third World and the need for nuclear defense policy? Question: Which Mediterranean government is Ronald Reagan trying, with the help of George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger, to replace with a government led by a party which professes socialism and which contains extreme leftists?

If you answered 'the government of Israel' to both of the above, you know more about political and international irony than the President does.

Christopher Hitchens

Tags: united-states europe socialism terrorism soviet-union israel third-world united-nations leftism cold-war 1980s mediterranean-sea caspar-weinberger george-p-shultz israel-united-states-relations national-missile-defense presidency-of-ronald-reagan ronald-reagan

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