As this column went to print, from Islamabad to London to Paris to Moscow to Los Angeles — wherever a flickering video image could reach — the nerves of the world became more frayed this week with the images of mass demonstrations in the streets and the stunning announcement that Hollywood writers have gone on strike for more humane working conditions.

As a point of comparison, historians have had to reach back to the great general strike of 1926 in Britain, which was calle ...

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