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Lenin, Mensheviks, Nazis; fleeing Moscow, Berlin, Paris; arriving in America, lost letters, torture, and death.

This family history is a remarkable 20th century tale. Alex Gourevitch talks to his father, Peter Gourevitch.

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Jean-Louis Meissonier
The Barricade: Rue de la Mortellerie June 1848

Wait til you hear about what’s happening in the West Bank

Ladies and gentleman, the aulos, the final thing Plato heard, and a reminder that the ancient Greeks were going wild for the gnarliest skrawk imaginable. Return. To. Tradition. open.spotify.com/track/3rj3vPlg…

Israel's closest parallels now imo are the post empire right-wing states of Eastern Europe during the interwar period that had strong domestic fascist movements, particularly Romania - irredentist ethnonationalism mixed with religious apocalypticism and geopolitical cynicism

He’s absolutely correct

Haneke was really crazy for doing a 3-minute-long-take of Juliet Binoche watching an Arte(?) doc about Konstantin Stanislavski while ironing

'Democracy has run out of future' - great to see this thoughtful, detailed engagement with my book in Foreign Policy by Ivan Krastev and Leonard Benardo
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LSE European Institute Profile Books

↳ latest Awe on NTS Radio now archived

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Real wages per employee in Italy (blue line) are currently lower than 25 years ago - which is not the case for Germany, France, Spain.

Carolin Fohlin is one of the economists whose work I admire the most. I saw her speak in 2016 at Goethe-Universität when she was a guest professor for financial history. She's a leading scholar of the history of German finance and corporate governance. She knows what fascism looks like.

I like to imagine that it would be with the same awkward and stilted tone that the formation of a Junta would be announced

I wrote a short essay for the New Left Review blog newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Superb piece by Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi on the complex history of Iran–Palestine solidarity, the former's shifting regional strategy, and the meaning of Operation True Promise:

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Solidarity with the two army horses who bolted from the military barracks in London and galloped down the streets.. Unlike those who ride them and blindly obey orders, these magnificent creatures made a bid for freedom.

Blah blah blah crackdown one man rule is China's rise over?? Xinjiang Hong Kong COVID most powerful leader since Mao reform and opening up Deng Xiaoping fucking cat quote again tiananmen square civil society bo xilai Marxist dogma Iowa

I wrote a piece in the new 'Granta'. granta.com/the-accursed-m…

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