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From servitude to freedom. Or was it the other way round?
“Towards the end of his life Stanley Baldwin was asked whether his career in politics had been guided by the ideas of any political thinker. Perhaps surprisingly, since the former Conservative prime...
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Nature is not only utilitarian, but also wasteful
The Origin of Beauty: Darwin’s greatest Dilemma by Josef H. Reichholf: a review by Horst Bredekamp Did Darwin, in his theory of ‘sexual’ selection, define nature as a history of erotic form – or even...
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You have zero privacy. Get over it.
“The Staatstrojaner (literally “state trojan”, colloquial German term for the government malware) whose self-destruct function obviously failed, was discovered, reverse-engineered and analyzed by Chaos...
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South Africa: The New Threat to Freedom
Since 2010 there have been two parliamentary bills introduced that seek to deny South Africans the right to know: the Protection of State Information Bill and the Media Tribunal. Nadine Gordimer writes...
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Taking the mickey out of American Exceptionalism
In this piece, E. L. Doctorow describes how America can achieve unexceptionalism in four easy steps. This, according to him, would render America entirely “indistinguishable from the impoverished,...
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National security must be re-politicised
Why politics should not stop at the water’s edge In Issue 9 of Jacobin, Corey Robin argues that the issue of security should be put back on the political agenda. He doesn’t tease out all the...
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Submitted by Jaymin J. Tanna, an animation artist from India. “A good man walks out of his house with the simple intention of buying milk for his breakfast to find a war going on outside. Even...
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Submitted by Aurora Ira, an artist and photographer from the UK. How many fingers, 3 min video (2013) Freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=4. – George Orwell The work’s title, ‘How many fingers’, is...
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Propaganda: Power and Persuasion
An exhibition on international state propaganda from the 20th and 21st centuries. The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB Until 17 September 2013 Visit their website “Propaganda is all...
View ArticleCalling out from Tunisia
Submitted by Zoulaykha Labidi, a writer from Tunisia. Calling out from a suppressed country to a suppressed world I hope you have heard of at least some of the events that are occurring in Tunisia,...
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