“Who, really, is Lula da Silva? Is he the Third World revolutionary intent on destroying the First World and replacing it with a socialist planet ruled by rowdy caudillos of the collectivist ilk, a dream held by Hugo Chavez and other hallucinating troublemakers in that political family? Or is he a moderate social-democrat devoted to the development of a market economy similar to that which rules the world’s 30 wealthiest and happiest nations? I fear that he is the two, simultaneously, as dreamt (literally, dreamt) by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886, when he wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to explain the moral duality of a kind scientist who became an aggressive and detestable being after drinking a brew that turned him into another person.” (11/30/09)