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Notes on Tunisia
I spent almost three weeks in Tunisia, visiting the cities of Tunis, Bizerte, El Kef, Tozeur, Tataouine, El Jem, Sfax, Sousse, Monastir, Kairouan, and a few smaller towns in between. At first, I th…
Not only was socialist economic theory all the rage at the time, but Bourguiba believed that the state needed to be expanded to fill the holes in society left by the extraction of Islam, and socialism offered a far more comprehensive and seemingly innovative societal mortar than the vague Western liberalism of the French exploiters. https://www.timesofisrael.com/tunisian-president-denies-claims-he-made-anti-semitic-remarks/ On my plane ride back to America, I watched the movie, Sound of Freedom, and I tried to imagine how difficult it would be to explain the controversy surrounding the film to someone from the past or future or a non-Western country who doesn’t have a fairly intricate grasp of the bizarre permutations of the American culture war. The economy is terrible and getting worse, but the regime seems to have done just enough to slow down the march toward complete fiscal disintegration, so Saied has probably bought a few more years before he either has to go crawling back to the IMF, crank the money printers to high/hyper-inflation territory, or possibly trigger a real mass revolt by removing the subsidies.
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