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Social experiments without experimentalism | Eurozine

In the spring of 2009, filmmaker Ruben Östlund was interviewed about his forthcoming movie Play. Asked about his new ‘attitude’

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Mao’s legacy | Eurozine

In 1958, the People’s Republic of China launched an ambitious program designed to transform the country from an agrarian to

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Which histories? | Eurozine

Both ‘cyclical’ and ‘teleological’ views of history offer ways to learn from the past, writes Paolo Pombeni in issue of

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The new infinity | Eurozine

‘What do a chatbot, a smart fridge, a predictor of payment-default risk, an automated translator, a self-driving car, an email

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Street tulips | Eurozine

In search of a flower, I spent one day in early March going to plant shops and market stalls in

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Hungary’s restart | Eurozine

The events in Budapest on the night of Viktor Orbán’s election defeat on 12 April were pivotal and unforgettable. Hundreds

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The meaning of Viktor Orbán

I remember faintly as a child when Viktor Orbán once came to visit our house with his wife, Anikó Lévai,

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The great wokeism paradox | Eurozine

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the term ‘wokeism’ has featured prominently in political, academic and media debates. Originally

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When human rights end | Eurozine

Marking the 50th anniversary of the formation of the first waves of Helsinki monitoring groups in Moscow, Ukraine and Lithuania,

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The rabbit eaters | Eurozine

Soviet cities grew a thickening green belt of allotment gardens around them in the same decades that Americans spent millions