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Passing on the Flag

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History, Politics, Society

Elif Shafak

An Appeal to Cosmopolitanism

Contemporary politics — with its populist demagogues, illiberal democracies and nationalist or tribalist movements — more and more resembles the beginning to an Anatolian folk tale. Just like the listeners of those ancient folk tales, we, global citizens of today, have entered a messy, disorderly universe.
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History, Politics, Society

Nicolas Baverez

Freedom is a Fight

More than ever, war is not about economics but about power and ideology. Authoritarian empires, as Vladimir Putin shows, will do anything, including war, to prohibit freedom in what they define as their sphere of influence.

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Novels, Museums and the Idea of Europe

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Jean-Marie Guéhenno

The Mere Absence of War is Not Enough

Have we reached the end of days? War has been a part of the human condition since the beginning of time. But another world war in the age of nuclear weapons would spell the end of humanity as we know it.
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History, Philosophy, Science, Society

Ray Monk

Wittgenstein, Russell and Oppenheimer on War and the Bomb

What are the lessons we have to learn from thinkers like Wittgenstein, Russell and Oppenheimer for our time? As it happens, all three of these thinkers have grappled, in fascinatingly contrasting ways, with questions of war and peace, and much could be learned from investigating how they did so.

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Søren Kierkegaard

The Concept of Anxiety

What we can learn from animals as anxious humans
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Søren Kierkegaard

The Concept of Anxiety

What we can learn from animals as anxious humans
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Thomas Mann

What can we learn from the great European humanist?

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