Your time-travel sentence of the day
This one goes out to those readers old enough to have some kind of memory of the Cold War. Imagine, for a second, if you could go back in time and tell the people of, say, 1983 that, twenty-five years later, the following sentence would be written: The Russian stock market’s rise can be traced ...
This one goes out to those readers old enough to have some kind of memory of the Cold War. Imagine, for a second, if you could go back in time and tell the people of, say, 1983 that, twenty-five years later, the following sentence would be written: The Russian stock market's rise can be traced to positive news on the nationalization of US mortgage agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I'm going to be trying to wrap my head around the concepts in that sentence for the rest of the day.
This one goes out to those readers old enough to have some kind of memory of the Cold War. Imagine, for a second, if you could go back in time and tell the people of, say, 1983 that, twenty-five years later, the following sentence would be written:
The Russian stock market’s rise can be traced to positive news on the nationalization of US mortgage agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
I’m going to be trying to wrap my head around the concepts in that sentence for the rest of the day.
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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