You're right, that is peculiar. Is this postmodern drollery or something more sinister? Here's info about the editor and publisher, Moises Naim. First is a little about Venezuela in the '90s; second link is his bio at Foreign Policy. Hard to tell... Was he with Chavez in the '90s and is now undermining the U.S. from his new and tony position?
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Moisés Naím
Moisés Naím is editor and publisher of FOREIGN POLICY. He has written extensively on the political economy of international trade and investment, multilateral organizations, economic reforms, and globalization. He is the author or editor of eight books, numerous essays, professional articles and his opinion columns are regularly published in the world’s leading newspapers.
Dr. Naím served as Venezuela’s minister of trade and industry and played a central role in the initial launching of major economic reforms in the early 1990s. Prior to his ministerial position, he was professor and dean at Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración, in Caracas. He was also the director of the projects on economic reforms and on Latin America at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dr. Naím was associated with the World Bank on two occasions, first as an executive director and later as a senior advisor to the president.

Dr. Naím holds a Ph.D. and a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.