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The Christian genesis of North Korea’s personality cult

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Gas from the ruptured Nord Stream 2 pipeline bubbles to the surface of the Baltic, seen from a Danish F-16 on 27 September 2022.
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Nord Stream: another Ukrainian deep strike

  • October 19, 2026
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Apprentices riot against ‘strangers’ in Cheapside on Evil May Day, 1517.
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Shakespeare’s riot of humanity

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Anselm Feuerbach, Plato's Symposium, painting in oil on canvas, 1869.
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The pleasures of translating Plato

  • October 16, 2026
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The Polish passenger ship 'Pilsudski' at Gdynia, 1935.
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Gdynia and the dream of a maritime Poland

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Joshua Wong, heir to the Cold War dissidents

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Persona: Ingmar Bergman’s stone-cold classic

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The Umayyad Mosque, Damascus. Engraving after Hercule Catenacci, from Le Tour du Monde, 1882.
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Islam’s own Enlightenment

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  • Fitzroy Morrissey
Plautilla Nelli’s painting of Saint Catherine with the Lily.
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Catherine of Siena, saint and stateswoman

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Star Wars and the dawning techno-empire

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Canadian poet Anne Carson.
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Anne Carson’s roaming imagination

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