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Claustropolis: 1984
“Claustropolis: 1984” is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. In Bhopal, I could lie low. In Bhopal, there would be instructions for me. Because I had been told not to take the express, I traveled on a local, in an unreserved bogie. The whiskey was Director’s Special, a parting gift from Gupta’s people. I didn’t even…
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10 July 2024Share Amanda Ruggeri When people are trying to persuade you, they sometimes reach for underhand tricks like the ‘appeal to ignorance’ or ‘whataboutism’ to seem more convincing. Amanda Ruggeri explains how to identify these logical fallacies. Scroll social media, tune into the news, or simply raise a hot-button issue with an acquaintance, and…
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byGary Saul Morson On The Gulag Archipelago at fifty. When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation appeared in 1973, its impact, the author recalled, was immediate: “Like matter enveloped by antimatter, it exploded instantaneously!” The first translations into Western languages in 1974—just fifty years ago—proved almost as sensational. No longer was it so easy to…
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We can shout truth to power and it will never be heard, because truth and politics don’t stand on common ground. Samantha Rose Hill 25 October 2020, 8.16pm “…how vulnerable is the whole texture of facts in which we spend our daily life; it is always in danger of being perforated by single lies or…
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We share critical labour movement skills and knowledge to ground workers, organisers and students in practical organising, and in the history and theory of labour. Enrollment is now open for the Sept-Nov 2024 Semester. Please read the course descriptions below. Class size is limited. Registration ends on Sept 9, 2024. School starts on Sept 16,…
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