Unherd, 4 September 2026
And now, for something completely different…:
Former President Ashraf Ghani has an appearance here as “America’s Prospero,” but the author misses one point when he writes about Shakespeare’s original Prospero that his “power is inseparable from his books.” He seems to have missed that also Ghani does not regret many more things than having had to leave behind his library, as the New York Times reported. Whether his power, too, came from his books is another debate…
Also, several AAN reports are quotes in this article.
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This article was last updated on 8 Sep 2026
