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John Harris posts a slightly argumentative view on the Statue Wars controversy
Read MoreMargaret Randall is thinking about statues, racism, and history.
Read MoreDid Trump say it? Did he deny saying it? Who knows?
Read MoreBrian Fawcett recalls something he discovers about how Dostoyevsky wrote dialogue that leads him to take a swing at James Wood, (the critic, not the actor)
Read MoreBrian Fawcett isn’t fond of people who feed peanuts to squirrels. Here’s why.
Read MoreA few days ago, Merrily Weisbord sent me a piece written by Olga Tokarczuk about the Covid-19 crisis currently sweeping the world. A friend of Merrily’s, Jerzy Przytyk, had translated the piece using Google’s notoriously mechanical translation program. What Tokarczuk had to say in the piece was interesting simply because she is Olga Tokarczuk,…
Read MoreThe rightwing populist tsunami didn’t happen; Greens blossom; Europe fragments, pro-EU majority maintained.
Read MoreSinging the Lord’s song in a strange land.
Read MorePOTUS takes a snooze.
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