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Emma Bonino’s Legacy: The Responsibility to Defend Rights and Freedom
From the struggle for abortion rights in Italy to the campaign for a more united Europe, Emma Bonino treated freedom as a responsibility, not a settled achievement. A personal remembrance of a…
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Istria and the Price of Returning
For generations, Istria was the holiday people returned to without a second thought. As prices rise, that familiarity faces a new test: what makes a place worth coming back to?
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It’s Written on the Wall I – Street Art the Riga Edition
This photo gallery from the Streets of Riga is the first instalment in a series of four focusing on street art and wall scribblings around the world; the next three will be:…
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House of Nisaba: New Stories of Painting
House of Nisaba: New Stories of Painting at Moderna Museet asks what figurative painting can still do in a fractured present. Our new art correspondent, Chiara Gelmini, follows the exhibition as a…
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Welcome to Art Basel 2026? Inside and Outside the Fair
Art Basel 2026 gave the public rare proximity to the places where contemporary art is priced, ranked and consecrated. But the fair also raised a harder question: when does admission become access,…
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The banality of helplessness? – Reading Hannah Arendt through the Iranian diaspora
Not until recently did I truly understand what Hannah Arendt meant by the banality of evil. Yet I had not recognised how quietly, how efficiently, banality works—not only through bureaucrats and systems,…
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Is it possible to move on after the Holocaust? A psychological perspective on the ongoing disaster in Gaza.
By Soly Erlandsson “Why can we never stop worrying about Nazism?” That question begins Birgitta Almgren’s highly readable book about Sweden and Nazi Germany: The Dream of North. Nazi infiltration 1933–1945 (Carlssons,…
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Ecosystems in crisis – Who takes responsibility for our future, and can the balance be restored?
How do our choices and political decisions affect the balance of nature? What does sustainable development mean in practice – and are we prepared to make the choices and sacrifices required to…
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‘When The Last Letter Is Gone / The Last of The Demons Is Done’
I. B. Singer’s short story ‘The Last Demon’ appears on the surface to be exactly what it says it is: a (very) short story about a demon that is the last of his kind…
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It “May Be Pointless or Even Criminal,” But They “Still Operate on Infants”
“Chronicle of a Single Day” is a text from the volume Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto (written in the Warsaw Ghetto in August 1941 and here read in the English translation) whose recurring themes are…
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The Children Take Their Revenge
Already in one of the first scenes of the film Unzere Kinder (which follows the newsreel prologue that depicts the harsh reality of Jews being mass-deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp and what happened…
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Morals and Mores of the Warsaw Ghetto
This article examines a text about the declining morals and mores of the Jewish inhabitants of the wartime Warsaw Ghetto, presumably written on 4th July 1942. It is derived from the “Street” section…
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