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Veganism goes abroad

Veganism began officially in 1944 when some of the outliers of the Vegetarian Society asked for space in the British Vegetarian Society’s newsletter for those who don’t eat dairy products.   Sean Sheehan   They were turned down. It must have been a hard life in the fifties and sixties […]

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A palliative society, a bare survival

Byung-Chul Han is a Korean-born philosopher, based in Germany. Training initially as a metallurgist, he moved west and switched disciplines, becoming now one of our chief public intellectuals. Steve Latham   He has examined the impact of social and technological change on the psyche of contemporary culture, concentrating on how […]

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Ukraine, the graveyard of Putin’s dreams?

Fukuyama’s influential claim that history – driven by the conflict of ideologies – ended with the end of the USSR and Gorbachev’s commitment to stop interfering in the affairs of eastern European countries, was revised by its author in 2018. He adapted his analysis to say instead that identity is […]