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Listen: https://ift.tt/iYg5TDq Does Hollywood have anything interesting left to say? In a world where franchises dominate and grown-up movies have fallen by the wayside, Ross talks to the showrunner Tony… more ›
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Many citizens who don’t want to explain their employment status pay to rent a position in a fake office, with some even assigning fictitious tasks and organizing supervisory rounds. For… more ›
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The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology. These heartbreaking stories, Hirschfeld wrote in The Sexual History of… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/80asOor How did opium traders convince the British Cabinet to wage war on China? Who was Lord Palmerston? Why was China, one of the biggest empires in the world,… more ›
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Recently, the philosopher Slavoj Žižek gave a lecture on “a quantum theory of history” at the Berggruen Institute Europe’s Casa de Tre Oci in Venice. For Žižek, all major ideologies,… more ›
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Afghan Style is a fashion study of the Afghan man. Afghans have proven to be the most stylish men I have ever encountered; self-possessed, proud, sophisticated, & nuanced. As individuals & … more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/4zvJtT7 U.S. and European leaders often talk about the importance of building China-free supply chains for transition minerals and other critical resources. While, for a lot of people, that… more ›
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I BEGAN WRITING this after I saw the photos of Donald Trump working at McDonald’s. Like many, I was struck by how much the images, with their bizarre aesthetics and surreal content,… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/hfWaO1g In this week’s episode, Medaya Ocher, Kate Wolf, and Eric Newman are joined by LARB contributor Gideon Jacobs for a discussion about the power of images in the… more ›