Probes

Letter from Berlin: The Refugee Referendum

By Stan Persky | March 18, 2016

In Germany, voters go to the polls to assess Angela Merkel’s refugee policy.

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Why Haydée?

By Margaret Randall | September 11, 2015

From Margaret Randall’s new book, “Haydee Santamaria, Cuban Revolutionary.”

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The Young and the Restless, and Laura Kipnis

By Stan Persky | July 25, 2015

“Feminist students protest feminist prof for writing about feminism”: the Laura Kipnis story.

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Letter from Berlin: Quo Vadis, Greece?

By Stan Persky | July 24, 2015

Questions about Greece that maybe even the Delphic oracle can’t answer.

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Local Investment, Local Knowledge, and the Way Ideas are Imagined

By Brian Fawcett | June 3, 2015

Brian Fawcett goes home to Prince George to award the “John Harris Prize,” and makes a speech about what happened to the profits and prophets of the region.

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Letter from Berlin: Syriza and the Minotaur

By Stan Persky | March 21, 2015

Of fiscal gods and monster debts: the Greek crisis.

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Two Principles of Free Speech

By John Dixon | March 20, 2015

John Dixon on free speech.

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Letter from Berlin: History, Cont’d.

By Stan Persky | January 17, 2015

Reflections on the shootings in Paris, and the Continuation, not the End, of History.

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Is the Far-Right Right?

By Brian Fawcett | January 16, 2015

We know David Solway is right wing. But is he actually right about any of it? Brian Fawcett investigates….

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Some Moral Hysteria

By Brian Fawcett | January 16, 2015

Brian Fawcett on the media stampede surrounding Jian Gomeshi and Bill Cosby.

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