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Don't write democracy off just yet By John Lloyd Reuters, Fri Dec 23, 2016 | 8:19am EST This past year has been one where the limits and failings of democracy became more visible than at any time since World War Two enshrined the view that representative government was best. After that vast and hideous conflict, democracies defeated the tyrannies of Germany, Italy and Japan - ..

The New Intellectuals Is the academic jobs crisis a boon to public culture? By Evan R. Goldstein The Chronicle Review November 13, 2016 Premium Mark Abramson for The Chronicle Review Clockwise from top left: Sarah Leonard, Nikil Saval, Jon Baskin, David Marcus, Rachel Rosenfelt, Remeike Forbes, Bhaskar Sunkara, and Peter Frase. O ne night this spring, the New York Institute fo..

[동아광장/박정자]프랑스혁명의 진짜 희생자들박정자 객원논설위원 상명대 명예교수 입력 2016-12-02 03:00:00 수정 2016-12-02 03:00:00 댓글보기4| 폰트 | 뉴스듣기여성남성 | 프린트이메일 기사공유 | “빵 없으면 케이크 먹어라”… ‘고백록’ 구절, 왕비의 말로 둔갑 군중의 분노는 극에 이르고..

Dispatches Islam and the French Republic BEN JUDAH July/August 2016 Fabien Engelmann, Mayor of Hayange: A gay leftist, he switched to the FN in 2010 (© JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN/AFP/Getty Images) You only really know Paris when you know the Métro. When you recognise the Roma rapping on La Ligne 13, when you know without needing to look which stations let the sleeping..

The Challenge of ConsciousnessRiccardo Manzotti and Tim ParksNew York Review of Books November 21, 2016, 4:00 pm Washington State Historical Society/Art ResourceVirna Haffer: Inside the Mind of Man, circa 1935-1942 Is it possible to put some order into our thoughts about consciousness, memory, perception, and the like? Hardly a day goes by without some in-depth article wonderin..

Faith and freedom The reality of the EnlightenmentAnthony Gottlieb Anthony Gottlieb talks toleration, autonomy and Spinoza’s God. SpikedSeptember, 2016 In 2000, scholar, writer and then executive editor at The Economist Anthony Gottlieb received widespread acclaim for the first installment of his survey of Western philosophy, The Dream of Reason, which covered thought from th..

How Far Can We Go? Limits of HumanityMemolition Sept., 2016 Is there a border we will never cross? Are there places we will never be able to reach, no matter what? It turns out there are. Far, far more than you might have thought…

Show Hide image The Somme and modern memory My father was 16 when he enlisted in the army in September 1914. Within nine months he was fighting on the Western Front. By Simon HfferNewStatesman1 July, 2016 On 30 June 1916, the day before the Battle of the Somme began, my father’s regiment, the Cambridgeshires, were 40 miles north at Richebourg-Saint-Vaast. What happened the n..

Everyone was a liberal On the Left, ‘neoliberal’ is an epithet but, not long ago, everyone wanted to be liberal. Will anyone claim liberalism? by Lawrence Glickman AEON New Deal art. Detail from 'The Family Industry and Agriculture' WPA mural in the Ambler, Pennsylvania Post Office. Artist: Harry Sternberg. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Lawrence Glickman is a professor of Ameri..

[만물상] 한강, 샘터, 김재순김윤덕 논설위원·문화부 차장 조선일보 입력 : 2016.05.20 03:00 김수근이 설계한 대학로 샘터 사옥에 찻집 '밀다원'이 있었다. 갓 볶은 원두로 내린 커피맛이 좋았다. 통유리창 너머 대학로 사계(四季)를 민낯으로 즐길 수 있어 명소가 됐다. 단골도 많았다. 월간 ..