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Maria Popova: The Secret Behind 20 Years of Daily Writing
The writer behind the legendary blog “The Marginalian” David Perell May 13, 2026 vMaria Popova is famous for her personal blog, The Marginalian, where she’s published more than six million words. All the nights I’ve spent reading her writing were like an entry point into intellectual curiosity. She’s introduced me to more writers and ideas than just…
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Jörn Schütrumpf Rosa Luxemburg 10 November, 2023 First published at Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. In the months leading up to World War I, Rosa Luxemburg and Vladimir Lenin were not quarrelling over the national question, but something different altogether. What their struggle really entailed can be seen in Lenin’s third charge against her, that “she was mistaken in July…
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Reciprocal Otherness Simone de Beauvoir on freedom and difference by Toril Moi phe·nom·en·ology [fəˌnɒmɪˈnɒlədʒi] NOUN PHILOSOPHY BeyondWords One evening in 1932, Simone de Beauvoir joined Jean-Paul Sartre and his old schoolfriend, the philosopher Raymond Aron, for a drink at a bar in Montparnasse.1 The three of them enthusiastically ordered apricot cocktails, the specialty of the house. Aron,…
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‘We live in a world of amorality and shamelessness’ … Rushdie amid mythical characters and legends old and new. Composite: Getty Images/ Alamy/ Warner Bros Salman Rushdie ‘The good guys don’t always win’: Salman Rushdie on peace, Barbie and what freedom cost him What can the great myths (and the summer blockbusters) tell us about peace?…
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Saturday 17 June 2023, by Kobad Ghandy by Kobad Ghandy with inputs by Raktim Ghosh and Bonhihotri Hazra This article will be divided into two parts. The first will deal with the CPM led West Bengal government’s approach to globalisation/SEZs, development with focus on Singur and Nandigram, Industry and labour, education and health……and its resultant actions on…
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(February 10, 1933) On January 30, 1933, German President Paul von Hindenberg appointed Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of a coalition government joining the political forces of the nationalist conservatives and National Socialists under Hitler’s leadership. He gave his first speech as Chancellor on February 10, 1933, in the Berlin Sportplast. This is Hitler’s Regierungserklaerung [State of the Union address] to the German people. Speaking in…
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