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Hannah Arendt

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54 days ago

Be sure of this: many of the horrors the west allowed in Gaza will come closer to home | Owen Jones ⊖⊖

History shows the crimes of empire were later mirrored on European soil. Dehumanisation and militarised terror both seem normalised now

It’s clear what Israel’s western-facilitated genocide has done t…

66 days ago

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0 ⊖⊖

If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might t…

9 months ago

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy review – incurable sadness if bravely borne

Colm Tóibín introduces this welcome reprint of the US author and critic’s poignant account of orphanhood, first published in 1957

Mary McCarthy was a formidable, not to say frightening, figure in the …

The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – chapter and verse as a weapon of war

A gripping study of the CIA smuggling operation to get banned books behind the iron curtain

In March 1984 Polish customs officers noticed a suspicious truck. It had arrived on an overnight ferry from …

‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism

From George Orwell to Hannah Arendt and John le Carré, thousands of blacklisted books flooded into Poland during the cold war, as publishers and printers risked their lives for literature

The volume’s…

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