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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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  • The Future and How to Get There Ashley Frawley October 19th, 2022

    [This essay was originally published in Culture on the Offensive but is no longer available online. It has been republished here with permission.] Introduction In the late 1990s, political scientist Alan Wolfe remarked that ‘the right won the economic war, the left won the cultural war, and the center won the political war.’ Today this…

  • We Need to Reverse the Culture of Decay and March on the Street for a Culture of Humanity: The First Newsletter (2024)

    JANUARY 4, 2024 Michael Armitage (Kenya), The Promised Land, 2019. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. The final months of 2023 pierced our sense of hope and threw us into a kind of mortal sadness. Israel’s escalating violence has killed more than twenty thousand Palestinians to date, wiping out entire generations…

  • Why we need a political realignment.

    Sam Kahn Jan 22 A Guide for the Politically Homeless Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more   A Guide for the Politically Homeless Why we need a political realignment. Sam Kahn Jan 22     READ IN APP   (Photo by Michael Kovac/FilmMagic.) There seem to be two words in the air at the…

  • Jon Fosse

    Nobel Lecture A Silent Language Jon Fosse delivered his Nobel Prize lecture in literature on 7 December 2023 at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. He was introduced by Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. © THE NOBEL FOUNDATION 2023General permission is granted for the publication in newspapers in any language after December 7,…

  • The Nobel Peace Prize 2023 -Award ceremony speech

    Copyright © The Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, 2023.General permission is granted for the publication in newspapers in any language. Publication in periodicals or books, or in digital or electronic forms, otherwise than in summary, requires the consent of the Foundation. On all publications in full or in major parts the above underlined copyright notice must be…

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