Culture and Ideas
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The Political Consequences of the Politicians Who Cried Looter
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When lies and gross exaggerations are allowed to flourish there can be devastating consequences, particularly amid crisis.
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Constructing National Narratives: The Tin Drum as Ironic History
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The far-right has soured on Germany’s self-critical view of its history in place since the end of the Second World War.
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The Politics of Climate Fiction: Why We Don’t Talk About What Is Killing the Planet
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Plenty of post-apocalyptic climate fictions are quiet are the cause of disaster. This oversight has real-life consequences for our planet’s future.
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Aesthetic Engagement and the Politics of Affiliation: The Case of Allusion in Autumn
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Does literature intrinsically have any political and ethical import? Not directly, but it can help inspire political action.
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Review: Globalisation and the Importation of Literature in Jameson’s Inventions of a Present
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The globalisation of literature merely marks a new type of narrative consumption, where novelists become goods rather than goods-producers.
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The First Jewish Republic: Yiddish Literature and Jewish Politics
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A prescient observer of Jewish politics in his day, Sholem Aleichem and his work hold much insight into present Jewish political, social, and cultural life.
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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.