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Shahidul Alam at New Age/Northeast Bylines: It would be a mistake to see this as simply a demand for more jobs. The quota movement, justified as it is, is simply
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Gary Saul Morson in Commentary: Western intellectuals expected that novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, once safely in the West after his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1974, would enthusiastically endorse its
Continue readingSolzhenitsyn Understood the West and Predicted its Future With Frightening Precision
Victoria Gierok at Project Syndicate: Twenty-five years ago, the euro was introduced, in virtual form, as the common currency of the eurozone, which consisted of 11 countries. Banknotes and coins
by Ian Bremmer in Time Magazine: With so many elections in big countries this year, it’s a good time to look at how the politics of democracies are shifting. But
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Commencement Address at Harvard University in 8 June 1978. {Russian audio with English-translation audio overlay; and English subtitles.} PLEASE NOTE: THERE DOES NOT EXIST A VIDEO WITH ONLY
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Assal Rad at Zeteo: When a poll in March showed that only about half of Americans could correctly answer that more Palestinians had been killed in the war on Gaza
Continue reading“I Fixed the New York Times’ Pro-Israel Headlines on Gaza”
Robert F. Barsky at the MIT Press Reader: Unlike the many members of the left who captivated him as a young man — such as Dwight Macdonald, George Orwell, and
Continue readingHow George Orwell Paved Noam Chomsky’s Path to Anarchism
by Rashid Husain Syed at Globe and Mail: Pakistan, the nuclear-armed country that is the fifth most populous in the world, is on the cusp of a revolution – at
by Michael Ignatieff at Literary Review: Nearly three quarters of the world’s population, according to the experts, live in autocracies. Anne Applebaum’s Autocracy, Inc wants us to see the resemblances
James Goodwin in the Boston Review: The week after taking office in 2017, Donald Trump announced his administration’s signature policy on the administrative state—the constellation of agencies, institutions, and procedures
W. Joseph Campbell at The Conversation: Twenty years before Watergate, then-Sen. Richard Nixon’s national political ambitions were in peril. He was accused of dipping into a private, $18,000 slush fund
From The Free Press: A few weeks ago, fresh from being knighted by King Charles, historian Sir Niall Ferguson officially joined The Free Press as a columnist. His first piece