Culture and Ideas
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The Randomness of the World: A Review of Fluke by Brian Klaas
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Do we have meaningful control over our lives and the world? An OPR editor’s take on a new answer to this age-old question.
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Trump Rallies, Bruce Springsteen and America
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The split between seemingly natural bedfellows – white working class Trump supporters and Springsteen – holds two competing visions for modern America.
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‘Linguistic fascism’: Was Lord Moylan right to raise the alarm on Wales?
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To defeat linguistic fascism, we must realise that the true threat to liberty comes from a desire to punish others, corporally or reputationally, for not submitting to the idea that one language should be supreme over others.
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Rattling The Cage of Farmed Animal Identity
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Our immediate associations of ‘cow’ with ‘milk’ and ‘beef’ are rarely coupled with a recognition of the fact that an individual animal must be exploited to obtain these products.
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A History of National Language Policies in Singapore
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As Singapore grapples with an increasingly complex and intercultural demographic, policymakers must continually reassess language policies to better reflect the lived realities of its citizens.
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Review: A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics by Jürgen Habermas
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Habermas solutions concerning the protection of the political public sphere from fragmentation and exclusion dynamics in the digital age may not be sufficient to uphold its inclusivity and discursivity.
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The Colonial Hangover: How French Words Perpetuate a Continuity of Colonial Attitudes Against Algerians
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The long climb to expel divisions and resurrect equality starts with rooting out the discrimination embedded in one particular place: language.
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Politics of the Hostage
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Rather than clinging to the innocent or victimary subjectivity of the hostage, Israel and its supporters are implored to ‘undo’ the all-too comfortable sense of being unquestionably ‘at-home,’ and ‘dwell’ on the ‘moral dubiousness’ of what has been done.
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Valencian Road Signs
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In Valencia, language invokes politics, not just identity. Road signs are a part of this political story.
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How to Do Things with Swords, or the Performativity of Violence
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A Review of Lee Ann Fujii’s Book ‘Show Time’