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  • The politics of reading

    Black Panthers in a reading circle, (Photo: Pirkle Jones) The politics of reading Originally published: Simplifying Socialism  on June 12, 2026 by A. J. Horn (more by Simplifying Socialism) (Posted Jun 15, 2026) Culture, Human Rights, Ideology, LiteratureGlobalNewswire The act of reading is so much more than following text with your eyes or—if you prefer audiobooks—with your ears. Done properly, reading…

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  • What Makes You You Makes the Universe: Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger on Quantum Physics, Vedanta, and the Ongoing Mystery of What We Are

    BY MARIA POPOVA To face the question of what makes us who we are with courage, lucidity, and fulness of feeling is to face, with all the restlessness and helplessness this stirs in the meaning-hungry soul, the elemental fact of our choicelessness in the conditions that lead to our existence. That is what the Nobel-winning founding…

  • Defiance in a time of terror   Postcards to Hitler

    …new from Monthly Review Press Defiance in a time of terror   Postcards to Hitler is the story of a Munich family living as close neighbors to the demagogue who will become the primordial commander of the Nazis—as passionately told by one of their surviving relatives, Bruce Neuburger.     “This profoundly researched book tells…

  • Rosa Parks b. February 4, 1913

    – People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then.…

  • The Collapse of Zionism

    ILAN PAPPÉ New Left Review 21 JUNE 2024POLITICS Hamas’s assault of October 7 can be likened to an earthquake that strikes an old building. The cracks were already beginning to show, but they are now visible in its very foundations. More than 120 years since its inception, could the Zionist project in Palestine – the…

  • In Vadakara, KK Shailaja is the CPI(M)’s single stone for two birds

    Many in Vadakara believe KK Shailaja’s popularity can overcome allegations of violence and corruption against the Pinarayi government. But it is also speculated that the CPI(M)’s move to front Shailaja is not without ulterior motives. KK Shailaja, Shafi ParambilDharini Praba Written by: Sukanya Shaji Edited by: Lakshmi Priya Published on:  23 Apr 2024, 9:00 am…

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