Europe
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The West’s West and the rest’s West
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« To see the West as a process means that France was at one time westernized. Rome was westernized. Greece was westernized »
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What Sweden is, not
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« Once the most social democratic country in Europe, and then, in the 1990s, the most neoliberal one, Sweden now aims to become the most nationalist one. »
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The sea between
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« In order to survive amidst this bleak existence, the Mediterranean people established two distinct strategies: hopelessness or salvation. Some embraced hopelessness as the best way to approach the absurd condition of human life. »
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~ Potpourri: Amsterdam
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A place where everything that cannot be endured aboveground finds its refuge.
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On learning to hate chickens
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Two novelists (one Swiss, one Spanish) sign up for agricultural jobs.
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Double negative
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Our first piece from Issue Eight, out from behind the paywall! « It’s best to go into Schengen’s history unshocked by contradiction. »
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The shortest, longest bus trip
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Travelogue of a day in Minsk & an eternity at the EU border.
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Texting with … Vincenzo Latronico
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« Nobody will want to read my book if I come across as a guy who quotes Kant on Whatsapp »