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David Palumbo-Liu

David Palumbo-Liu is Professor and Director of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, and author, most recently, of The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age (forthcoming). He edits Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities.

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On November 30, two million workers in Britain, where I’m a visiting scholar this term, walked off the job. High inflation, cuts to social services, and a protracted period of wage stagnation...
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