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Into the muckThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Time? For? Socialism? What happened when Thomas Piketty descended from the elegant mathematical Olympus of economic theory into the muck of political and economic crises, public debates, social confrontations, and competing visions of progress?
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A breast is a breast is a breastThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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To contemplate Pompeii is to contemplate archeology in its most extreme form, framed by the wish not only for discovery, but for resurrection.
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Ukraine yesterday & tomorrow
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Ukraine didn’t become an epicenter of world history all of a sudden; it became an epicenter again.
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How to write; or, how to insultThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Shoulders were slapped, fingers pointed, hearts fired up. Perhaps a little scuffle broke out after class, a boisterous wrestling over insults exchanged. Nothing to be concerned about. Acquiring knowledge was, after all, a combative affair.
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Firsts in spaceThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A friend of mine likes to say that the moon landing was real, but dumb. On astronautical tokenism.
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Curtain callThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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An iron curtain makes a powerful canvas. Images from Sven Johne & Falk Haberkorn’s Aus Sicht des Archivs, documenting life in the former East Germany in the 1990s.
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A kayak in ZierikzeeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Was a Dutch town founded by Inuits in the 9th century? On American discoveries of Europe.