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  • The man who told you so

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    As his book of collected journalism shows, Polish journalist, defense minister and foreign minister Radosław Sikorski saw it all coming.

  • Lawyers of the world, unite?

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    Law, it turns out, is capitalism’s operating system.

  • The geography of safety

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    Yugoslavia was Europe’s last open door for Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler. It was nobody’s dream.

  • The third-generation gap

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    Is international law dead, and if so, who killed it? Thomas Mann’s « Buddenbrooks » offers some insight.

  • Down to the wire

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    A visit to an Irish subsea cable landing station. Its engineers need to know all about scallop fishers and Russian saboteurs.

  • OnlyFascism

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    The libidinal thrill in fascism: on the German far-right’s sexy phantoms.

  • Processing evil

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    The Nuremberg trials saw the birth of simultaneous interpretation. Hermann Göring especially manipulated this new system of translation for his own purposes. « Where Eichmann embodied the banality of evil,…

  • KRIEG

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    Stefan Zweig, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann & Romain Rolland: lessons from the trenches, for AI models

  • Vova stopped killing the geese

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    When the Russians occupied his village.

  • Curing my lying

    Curing my lying

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    An excerpt from the novel Attention-Seeking Behaviour (Peninsula Press, 2026) by Aea Varfis-van Warmelo. « My being able to talk was most of the problem in the first place. »

  • The cudgellers’ dilemma

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    What Goya’s Black Paintings can tell us about current Spanish climate struggles.

  • The death of an unknown woman

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    A story about falling, translated by Elina Alter.