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There is a striking irony in the way Sitaram Yechury is being remembered today.
K A Shaji in Facebook Pinarayi Vijayan and the Kerala CPI(M) leadership speak of Yechury as a towering communist, an exceptional parliamentarian and a great defender of secular India. But when Yechury was alive, the CPI(M) unit in Kerala, by then firmly under Pinarayi Vijayan’s iron grip, was among the strongest forces resisting him. This…
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Arts & books roundups Books of the Year 2023 Our contributors select their favourites A detail of “Skaters near the Shore of Kalela” by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1896|© Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images November 17, 2023 Read this issue Subscribe to the TLS today and enjoy your first twelve editions for just £12 DAVID ABULAFIA In Against Decolonisation: Campus…
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Other languages Français Türkçe русский Deutsch हिन्दी 简体中文 Arabic A New Mood in the World Will Put an End to the Global Monroe Doctrine: The Forty-Seventh Newsletter (2023) NOVEMBER 23, 2023 Español Chinese Italian Italian Tagreed Darghouth (Lebanon), from the series The Tree Within, a Palestinian Olive Tree, 2018. Dear friends, Greetings from…
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BY MARIA POPOVA If the ancient Arab world had closed its gates to foreign travelers, we would have no medicine, no astronomy, and no mathematics — at least not as we know them today. Central to humanity’s quest to grasp the nature of the universe and make sense of our own existence is zero, which…
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by John Bellamy Foster Portrait of James Needham, adapted from a painting by James Wood, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. This article is based on a talk presented online to the School of Marxism, Shandong University, Jinan, China, in March 2023. It is revised and expanded from the original published version in International Critical Thought 13,…
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A cardiologist argues that contemporary medicine may harm as much as help. AKSHAY PENDYAL NOV 23, 2023 In celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday, we will not host our weekly paid subscriber happy hour this Thursday or publish a piece this Friday. Our next offering will be this Saturday’s Good Fight podcast with Tim Urban. We…
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