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Published in: HomeA Theory of Human RightsFreedom is the goal rather than the ground of human rights. But freedom is also essentially dependent on others and...
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Published in: 50.50Thinly veiled misogynyAs French President Nicolas Sarkozy attempts to drive through a ban on the niqab and burqa, Laurie Penny describes...
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Published in: HomeEurope and its cannibalsA spell-binding history of cannibalism in the middle ages: its use as a propaganda tool, and place in Christendom's...
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Published in: oDRWho is Russia's top intellectual?
Throughout Russian and Soviet history, the intellectual has played a central and hugely influential role in society....
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Published in: HomeAvatar blues and the hopelessness of Pandora
What's depressing is the film's theory of value
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Published in: openSecurityThe politics of poppy day
Following the threatened demonstration of Islam4UK in Wootton Bassett, Lucy Noakes explores the fraught history of...
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Published in: HomeDolphins as Persons?
The bedrock of our assumptions about human preeminence is shifting as scientists and philosophers explore the social...
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Published in: openSecurityKenya: combatting radical Islam
Before Kenya can succeed in stemming the radicalisation of its Muslim minority, the US will have to change its Somali policy
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Published in: HomeIn praise of hybridityEver since Ricardo, the defense of international trade has been about productive efficiency. But much more important...
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Published in: HomeBelarus: love and paranoia
A Belarusian novel encourages citizens to question their own role in perpetuating the regime that governs them. The...
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Published in: HomeA Manchester of the mind
The Guardian newspaper has its intellectual and moral roots in the northern English city of Manchester. The distance...
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Published in: HomeDoes environmentalism destroy the world?
openDemocracy and Resurgence launch the Dictionary of Ethical Politics to explore how our political concepts can...
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Published in: HomeThe Kindle era
The author looks forward to the 'Kindle Era', predicting that the Kindle will facilitate self publishing online, and...
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Published in: HomeThe imaginary enemy
Hoxha's bunkers remind Albanian's of the destructive paranoia of their recent past. But they are being re-used and...
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Published in: HomeFrance: identity in question
A "great debate" over French national identity is compromised by its politicised character and exclusionary...
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Published in: oDRMoscow calling! St Petersburg loses its TV
Control of St.Petersburg’s television station, once free-thinking and vibrant, has been handed to producers from...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWIN A TOM PAINE T-SHIRTPhilosophy Football's T-shirt design features these superb words of Tom Paine ' the construction of government ought...
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Published in: 50.50HIV: both the cause and the consequence of violence against women
In the UK the number of women living with HIV has been steadily growing since the beginning of the epidemic. Newly...
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Published in: 50.50The challenges for women of HIV and gender violence
The hinterland of acknowledging and dealing with the links between gender violence and HIV/AIDS is mostly unexplored...
