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As the Met bruised in
Last Thursday evening, more than twenty Metropolitan police officers – some armed with tasers – broke down the ...
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İmamoğlu’s Arrest
Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul, was arrested early in the morning of Wednesday, 19 March, on two charges ...
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Naa Oyo A. Kwate
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
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Daniel Lee
The binary of before and after a particular military event is often misleading when it comes to the experience of those who lived through it. For Jews and members of the Resistance, the days and weeks ...
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Thom Dyke
Thom Dyke is a barrister and a member of the Bar Human Rights Committee.
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Peter E. Gordon
Peter E. Gordon teaches European intellectual history at Harvard. One reason to welcome a new translation is that old terms and cadences tend to petrify: repeat a phrase often enough and its meaning ...
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Peter E. Gordon: Versions of Marx
In November 1885, Friedrich Engels published an essay in the Commonweal, the journal of the Socialist League, with the title ‘How Not to Translate Marx’. The translator he had in mind was John ...
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In the new Beijing
My generation has seen four paramount leaders: Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and now Xi Jinping. Deng, the only one not to serve as general secretary of the Party Central Committee, initiated ...