Probes
To understand what’s happening in Hong Kong, you have to understand the Chinese Communist Party. Ian Johnson on “China’s Black Weekend.”
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The rightwing populist tsunami didn’t happen; Greens blossom; Europe fragments, pro-EU majority maintained.
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Singing the Lord’s song in a strange land.
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POTUS takes a snooze.
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Bob Rowan tells a free speech story about a too-little-known American philosopher, Alexander Meiklejohn.
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How to keep thinking during and after the Apocalypse. Dan Gawthrop has a few practical suggestions.
Read MoreOld Age and Writing are disturbed by thought. Three George Stanley poems.
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In Italy, La Dolce Vita turns sour; in Germany, “stability” is still in fashion; in Switzerland, yodel-oh.
Read MoreGerman chancellor Angela Merkel won a fourth term, the Far Right won seats in Parliament for the first time since Hitler. Dooney’s is on-site to read the tea-leaves.
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