• Humboldt and Gaza: Berlin Bulletin No. 222, May 4, 2024
    Humboldt and Gaza: Berlin Bulletin No. 222, May 4, 2024

    It was May 10th in Germany’s terrible year 1933, Hitler had been in power for hardly three months, when students and staff emptied the university libraries of forbidden books and threw them, an estimated 20,000 books by over a hundred authors, into the flames of a giant bonfire.… No books were burned this time in early May. But there were ironic parallels, some all too alarming!

    Portugal: Fifty Years Since the Carnation Revolution
    Portugal: Fifty Years Since the Carnation Revolution

    John Green on the fiftieth anniversary of Portugal's Carnation Revolution.

    Gramsci and his friend “S”
    Gramsci and his friend “S”

    Piero and Nino exchanged ideas, criticized one another, encouraged each other; Nino often used Piero, seven-years his junior, as an intellectual sounding board, as a trusted interlocutor, asking for advice, for suggestions, whether his friend could chase up a source, a book or journal, a magazine or newspaper article, could he confirm this fact and that, find out some precise detail about Croce’s historical studies, if Machiavelli ever wrote anything about economics, or David Ricardo about philosophy.

    From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee: The Experiences and Reflections of an American Communist in East Germany
    From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee: The Experiences and Reflections of an American Communist in East Germany

    In this interview with Zhao Dingqi, Victor Grossman reflects on his life as an American communist in East Germany.

    So-Called “Peak China” Is Simply a Western Campaign for China to Commit Economic Suicide
    So-Called “Peak China” Is Simply a Western Campaign for China to Commit Economic Suicide

    Despite the fact that China’s economy continues to far outgrow all major Western economies the Western media is energetically promoting a myth that China’s economy either has or is about to drastically slow down.

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