by: Yascha Mounk



A conversation with Dany Cohn-Bendit, Stanley Hoffmann and Irena Gross

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by: Oliver Griffin


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'A French Man's Home is his Castle'

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by: Michael Wachsmann


A rhapsody in 'b' for bourgeois...


(Translated from the German by Yascha Mounk. For the original please see here)

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by: Paul Sutton


Ringworm, music lessons, VD, confirmation class .... spirit of the 60s?

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by: Alexander Lee



Why Italy's left is to blame for the rise of the far right...

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by: Timothy Stanley


From the vantage point of the early 21st century the American left seems like a hopeless, hapless, very probably lost cause. Is it time for a new 'New Politics'?

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by: Justin Fowler

'68 and the End of the High Modernist Ethic in Architecture

Avant-garde architecture was one of the unlikely victims of student sloganeers in May '68. 40 years later, young architects approach the lingering images of utopia with an almost fearful fascination as they seek to wed their own masturbatory exercises to something resembling social consciousness.

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by: Sven Muendner on a performance by Manon Awst & Benjamin Walther


'Destroy my ugly system face so that I don't see my own darkness anymore when facing myself in the morning, in the afternoon, in the night.'

System Being Manifesto, Island Utopia

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by: James Alexander
Utopia is an imaginative exercise associated with the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. More wrote in 1516, Campanella in 1602, Bacon in 1623, Harrington in 1656. These centuries were the early centuries of what the geographer Mackinder in 1904 called the... [more]