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At the UCLA Encampment
The protests have shown that the American university, which operates more and more as a high-cost degree factory ...
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Under the Jumbotron
On 25 April, a large group of students at the University of California, Los Angeles, set up an encampment on the ...
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Tractor Beams Chris Lintott
The evening sky on Friday lit up with a bright auroral display. Such phenomena are usually confined to the polar ...
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Women in Philosophy
The recovery of history’s ‘lost’ women is often associated with the advent of feminism, but, Sophie Smith writes, women’s contributions to Western philosophy have been regularly rediscovered since at ...
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Human Conditions: ‘A House for Mr Biswas’ by V.S. Naipaul
In A House for Mr Biswas, his 1961 comic masterpiece, V.S. Naipaul pays tribute to his father and the vanishing world of his Trinidadian youth. Pankaj Mishra joins Adam Shatz in their first of four ...
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Bevan’s Collapsing Dream
Nye, approaching the end of its run at the National Theatre, tells the story of Nye Bevan’s life and the creation of the NHS. Written by Tim Price, directed by Rufus Norris and starring Michael Sheen, ...
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At the Whitechapel
The first room of Zineb Sedira’s exhibition Dreams Have No Titles (at the Whitechapel Gallery until 12 May) is both inviting ...
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‘Man Number 4’
The killings in Israeli prisons that Ghassan referred to include the torturing to death of Adnan al-Bursh, the head of orthopaedic surgery at al-Shifa Hospital (and a Kings College London graduate) in ...
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On Satire: John Gay’s ‘The Beggar’s Opera’
Your browser does not support the audio element. In The Beggar’s Opera we enter a society turned upside down, where private vices are seen as public virtues, and ...