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Can we speak Greek?
Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised ...
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Myanmar after the Earthquake
The 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar on 28 March, followed minutes later by one almost as big, ...
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Francis Wade
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
Opinion
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As the Met bruised in
Last Thursday evening, more than twenty Metropolitan police officers – some armed with tasers – broke down the ...
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‘The streets are ours, Milei’
As in the US, at stake is the constitutional right to peaceful protest. At checkpoints in the subway and around Congress, police demanded to see ID and rifled through bags and backpacks, like the NYPD ...
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İmamoğlu’s Arrest
Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul, was arrested early in the morning of Wednesday, 19 March, on two charges ...
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In the new Beijing
My generation has seen four paramount leaders: Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and now Xi Jinping. Deng, the only one not to serve as general secretary of the Party Central Committee, initiated ...
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Peter E. Gordon: Versions of Marx
In November 1885, Friedrich Engels published an essay in the Commonweal, the journal of the Socialist League, with the title ‘How Not to Translate Marx’. The translator he had in mind was John ...
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Naa Oyo A. Kwate
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
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Kippers and Champagne
The story of the Barclay brothers’ rise is ‘the story of modern Britain’, and they were certainly creatures of ...