Time Magazine has dishonored only four entities by displaying them on its cover defaced, erased, crossed off with a large X. Can you guess who or what they are? I'll give you a big hint:
Try to guess the others, and then go to Winds of Change, where Marcus Cicero tracks just how far the X has traveled.
Taken in their order of appearance, the Time x-covers illustrate how the world has changed. Relatively obscure people can quickly surface and become international threats. Medieval revivalists like al-Zarqawi are strikingly modern, in spite of their dark dreams of a restored caliphate; they're amplified by technology to the degree that they really can threaten the world order. [ . . . ]Small, petty men were once made large by controlling the power of the state. Now they're made large by leveraging the power of the Internet, telecommunications, modern media and weaponizing the very things we depend on for modern life.
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