Sam Ben-Meir
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The ugliness of the West: Tinker tailor soldier spy and the ideological closure of capitalism (opens the original)
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John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy endures not simply as the anti–James Bond film but as something rarer: a diagnosis of Western civilization at the moment it began losing faith in itself. Where the James Bond franchise offered a fantasy of Western vitality—technological mastery, erotic confidence, geopolitical clarity—le Carré’s world presents the opposite. In place of glamour there is fatigue; in place of moral certainty, ambiguity. At the center of that world stands George Smiley, perh
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