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Michel Houellebecq’s Islamophobia and chauvinism have made him a favorite intellectual of right extremists. So why does he appeal to so many on the left as well?
We have surrendered the cherished value of “innocent until proven guilty” for the security logic that we are all “risky until proven safe.”
The left has not articulated an alternative trade agenda that supports all the world’s workers in a global economy.
Hwang Sok-yong’s novel Familiar Things sounds a warning about the pitfalls of Korean reunification.
The philosopher Herbert Marcuse saw machines as our greatest hope for real liberty. But in Trump’s America, automation feels more totalitarian than ever.
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