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Topic: History
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An archeology of the airThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Havelok the Dane, medieval air & the world’s largest wind farm
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The invention of austerityThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Dramatic economic inflations have punctuated twentieth-century political history. Is austerity a class strategy?
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No man’s landThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On Edda Mussolini & fashionable fascism. Can a woman be dangerous yet powerless?
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The inborn germThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Why death? Who or what dies? Philosophers tend not to explain, but to justify. When do such questions become biological questions? Does it help?
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WHOOOOThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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A story about a lonely railway guard on a desolate steppe. « In the cursed August of 1991 the radio informed Kasatonov that there was a state of emergency in…
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When the world makes rags of usThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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He spoke of painting like a starving man speaks of food. On Józef Czapski, Memories of Starobielsk and the art of observation.
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Gerard Croiset & the adventure of the psychic detectiveThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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The clairvoyant Dutch grocer who charted the frontiers of parapsychology and lent a hand to the FBI. « Unbelievable but true! »
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Skinned aliveThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Imagine your therapist assigned you to write your autobiography, after which you decided you were cured, so your therapist published it as revenge. Zeno’s Conscience turns 99.
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The room I am inThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Tight pants. Fashionable coats. Music. Defiant looks. On the last men & women who passed through the Bulgarian gulag.
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Glossomania-maniaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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On language invention. To desire some other perfect language is at once to acknowledge and to overlook the miraculousness of what we have.
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BorderlandThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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The great storm surge is coming, it has always been coming in the borderland between Denmark and Germany. Here, Danish writer Dorthe Nors visits the Frisian Wadden Sea island of…
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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…