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Published in: oDRArthur Koestler: 20th century manArthur Koestler, whose turbulent life charts the intellectual history of the 20thc in the West, has finally found a...
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Published in: openIndiaMoving Parts: PrajapatiIn this excerpt from Ruchir Joshi's 'Moving Parts' series, Ruchir visits the silica quartz processing-plant in...
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Published in: 50.50From a culture of war to a culture of peaceThe time has run out for traditional military answers. Ours is a culture of war, but cultures can change. We need...
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Published in: HomeFiction as truth, not myth
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Published in: oDROlympean blow at the Kremlin
Russian national pride has been badly dented by poor performance at the winter Olympics. It is being widely read as...
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Published in: HomeThe Golden Bear and its six silver siblings
A film called Honey took top prize at the 60th Berlin Film festival, presided over by Werner Herzog, this year’s...
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Published in: openSecurityEthnic riots provoke arson in Bangladesh's troubled Chittagong Hill Tracts
Chittagong Hill Tracts shaken by riots and arson. India and Pakistan take steps to rebuild their relationship. Niger...
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Published in: oDRRemembering Chekhov in YaltaOn the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Chekhov’s birth, his English biographer Rosamund Bartlett celebrates the...
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Published in: HomeA Theory of Human Rights
Freedom 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
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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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