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Published in: HomeFrance's other worlds: burqa and abyss
The degrading realities of France’s survivalist economy put the country’s latest debate about Islamic apparel into...
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Published in: HomeThe Golden Bear and its six silver siblings
A film called Honey took top prize at the 60th Berlin Film festival, presided over by Werner Herzog, this year’s...
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Published in: openSecurityEthnic riots provoke arson in Bangladesh's troubled Chittagong Hill Tracts
Chittagong Hill Tracts shaken by riots and arson. India and Pakistan take steps to rebuild their relationship. Niger...
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Published in: HomeA 'dishonesty of the conscientious': Gordon Brown’s tragedy
The literature of human fall and frailty illuminates the political fate of Britain’s prime minister.
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Published in: oDRRemembering Chekhov in Yalta
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Chekhov’s birth, his English biographer Rosamund Bartlett celebrates the...
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Published in: HomeA Theory of Human Rights
Freedom is the goal rather than the ground of human rights. But freedom is also essentially dependent on others and...
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Published in: 50.50Thinly veiled misogyny
As French President Nicolas Sarkozy attempts to drive through a ban on the niqab and burqa, Laurie Penny describes...
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Published in: HomeEurope and its cannibals
A spell-binding history of cannibalism in the middle ages: its use as a propaganda tool, and place in Christendom's...
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Published in: oDRWho is Russia's top intellectual?
Throughout Russian and Soviet history, the intellectual has played a central and hugely influential role in society....
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Published in: HomeAvatar blues and the hopelessness of Pandora
What's depressing is the film's theory of value
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Published in: openSecurityThe politics of poppy day
Following the threatened demonstration of Islam4UK in Wootton Bassett, Lucy Noakes explores the fraught history of...
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Published in: HomeDolphins as Persons?
The bedrock of our assumptions about human preeminence is shifting as scientists and philosophers explore the social...
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Published in: openSecurityKenya: combatting radical Islam
Before Kenya can succeed in stemming the radicalisation of its Muslim minority, the US will have to change its Somali policy
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Published in: HomeIn praise of hybridity
Ever since Ricardo, the defense of international trade has been about productive efficiency. But much more important...
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Published in: HomeBelarus: love and paranoia
A Belarusian novel encourages citizens to question their own role in perpetuating the regime that governs them. The...
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Published in: HomeA Manchester of the mind
The Guardian newspaper has its intellectual and moral roots in the northern English city of Manchester. The distance...
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Published in: HomeDoes environmentalism destroy the world?
openDemocracy and Resurgence launch the Dictionary of Ethical Politics to explore how our political concepts can...