Politics

What Karl Rove’s Learned from Jorge Luis Borges

Forking Paths

One of the political mastermind’s favorite writers is Jorge Luis Borges. Alec Nevala-Lee on what Borges’s stories reveal about Rove’s.

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Years ago, or so we’re told, a reclusive southern businessman, contemptuous of the world around him, decided to invent a country of his own. Using his vast fortune, he bankrolled a secretive organization of writers and intellectuals whose mission was to construct nothing less than every last detail of an...

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