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,…

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Pervez Hoodbhoy Published January 20, 2024   The writer is an Islamabad-based physicist and writerLISTEN TO ARTICLE1x1.2×1.5x WHERE the five-centuries-old Babri Mosque once stood, there now stands Ram Mandir. Around it, a new Vatican-like city is coming up. A staggering $4.2 billion have been collected as donations, both official and private. Though the temple’s completion is years away, consecration ceremonies…

How did Marxism become Marxism? PETER E. GORDON n the years leading up to the outbreak of the 1905 revolution in Russia, Eduard Bernstein—the spirited German advocate of socialist revisionism—warned his Marxist colleagues about the dangers of an “almost mythical faith in the nameless masses.” More skeptic than firebrand, Bernstein worried that Karl Kautsky and…