Languages’ similarities are not rooted in a special genetics for language. They follow from culture and common information-processing solutions and…
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Historians are generally wary of commemorations – fireworks that dazzle the eye only to fade in the same instant. But…
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Ever since Donald Trump’s victory in last year’s US presidential election, there has been frantic speculation about what it is…
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The Syrian writer, journalist and dissident Yassin al-Haj Saleh is one of the most prominent voices of the Syrian Revolution.…
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The following text is a chapter from Decolonising Art: Beyond the Obvious (2025), a publication that summarizes and documents a…
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Every year in Poland we ritualistically lament the country’s low-level readership, but we are yet to see the state take…
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The student protests in Serbia have persisted for seven months, yielding widespread and diverse effects. All state universities are still…
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All people are intellectuals but not everyone in society is given the role of intellectual Antonio Gramsci Chaussée Ménilmontant barricade,…
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Have you ever wondered how the results of scientific research get written up, published, disseminated and, in some cases, eventually…
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