Philosophy
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Book in the spotlight: Byzantinism and Slavdom Is the sun finally about to set on the West? Allowing for the problematic nature of the question (how does one define the West, and what does one mean by its death?), as well as for the number of false positives produced by doomsday tropes, the answer is…
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What one 19th-century book can teach us about freedom at a time when freedom is in retreat Of all the books bandied about in discussions of our current quasi-dystopian reality (more than a year and counting), Alexander Herzen’s From the Other Shore is not one likely to be mentioned. Nor is Herzen himself much of a household…