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Radical Reversal

The WTO protests in Seattle have pitted the protectionist left against the globalist right. Remember the days when globalization was the cause célèbre of the left? Robert Wright does, and in 1997 he explained how liberal advocates of world governance became champions of trade barriers and local control.

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