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A stupid term is still stupid even if someone else uses it stupidly.
In “The Passion of Pedro Almodóvar,” James Miller offers an eclectic survey of the career of one of Spain’s greatest ...
Quarantines and the evacuation of places of disease have been standard measures globally to contain epidemics for centuries, ...
Mental illness is no longer a taboo in Bangladesh — but are we healing, or simply importing a foreign language of suffering? In ‘Crazy Like Us,’ Ethan Watters shows what happens when psychiatry ...
He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to further colonialism.
Unsurprisingly, in an era overwhelmed by information, we often find ourselves parroting what others say online instead of ...
Following the brilliant books released in 2020 – and despite the impact of the current epidemic – English readers can look ...
Woke culture emerged from elite shifts in identity politics, abandoning the economic roots of social justice.
What struck me was how deeply the book resonated—not as a detached ... that the translation of philosphers like Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Louis Althusser into English ...