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From Protest to Power
On the face of it, the commentary sounded reasonable, with references to corruption (or state capture) and the ANC ’s slide ...
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‘At least we die dancing’
Lots of clubs claim to be “safe spaces”,’ I was told by Anton Nazarko, the co-founder of Some People in ...
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At the UCLA Encampment
The protests have shown that the American university, which operates more and more as a high-cost degree factory ...
London Review of Books6d
The Real Complaining Party
According to one influential view, crimes against humanity can and must be prosecuted irrespective of national ...
London Review of Books5d
Michael O’Connor
According to one influential view, crimes against humanity can and must be prosecuted irrespective of national borders: at the Nuremberg trials, the American prosecutor, Robert Jackson, declared that ...
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Among the Ancients II: Plato
Plato’s Symposium, his philosophical dialogue on love, or eros, was probably written around 380 BCE, but it’s set in 416, during the uneasy truce between Athens and Sparta in the middle of the ...
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In the Shadow of Silicon Valley
Your browser does not support the audio element. Rebecca Solnit has lived in San Francisco since 1980, but the city she used to know is fast disappearing, ‘fully ...
London Review of Books10d
The Algarve moves right
Undergraduates gathered outside the New University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Human and Social Sciences last month. As traffic sped by on the Avenida de Berna, they used stencils and aerosols to ...
London Review of Books5d
Rushdie, Khomeini and Me
In his new memoir, Knife, Salman Rushdie composes an imaginary dialogue with the man who attacked him on 12 August 2022 as he was about to give a talk in the town of Chautauqua in New York State.* He ...
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Medieval LOLs: Dame Syrith
As Mary and Irina discussed in the previous episode of Medieval LOLs, fabliaux had an enormous influence on Chaucer, but outside of his work, only one survives in Middle English. Dame Syrith, a story ...
London Review of Books5d
On Festac 77
Marilyn Nance was 23 when she photographed Festac ’77, a global celebration of Black and African art that she described as ‘the Olympics, plus a Biennial, plus Woodstock’. In his review of Nance’s ...