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  • Welcome back to Melaniesworld, where even potentially insightful arguments are crippled by their own shrill, hypertrophied rhetoric and their possession by an increasingly manichaean worldview.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • It's not even that such a manichaean view of music is telling me that I can't like both, it's that it's implying that if I do like both, that there must be something wrong with the way I listen.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2006

  • The United States viewed Cambodia through the manichaean lens of the Cold War and the struggle for world power, in which the Domino Theory held sway.

    Cambodia: Revisiting the Killing Fields 2008

  • It's not even that such a manichaean view of music is telling me that I can't like both, it's that it's implying that if I do like both, that there must be something wrong with the way I listen.

    "Can't he be both, like the late Earl Warren Matthew Guerrieri 2006

  • Woooohoooooo! posted by tortuga tommy, editor at battling the manichaean multiverse

    The Sudden Curve: 2004

  • Woooohoooooo! posted by tortuga tommy, editor at battling the manichaean multiverse

    Environmentalists really are whacky 2004

  • Woooohoooooo! posted by tortuga tommy, editor at battling the manichaean multiverse

    Environmentalists really are whacky 2004

  • The anti-Jewsh slant found on parts of the left is due to a manichaean view according to which Jews in diaspora are the bourgeois oppressors and Israel the imperialist oppressor state par excellence.

    Worst. Op-ed. Evar. | Jewschool 2004

  • I suppose I became a manichaean - if that's the word - without knowing it the first time I watched a child dying of cancer.

    The Lighthouse James, P. D. 1988

  • This is not some simple manichaean West/ wrong: Muslim and Arab world/ right argument here; I think it is worth remembering.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

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