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Bolivia’s economy strengthens

The Social Community Productive Economic Model, the government’s strategies aimed at a sovereign management of the economy that is appropriate to the Bolivian context, characteristics and idiosyncrasies, are the explanation for its success.   Jorge Petinaud Martínez   “This year we consolidated the economic reactivation, despite attempts at internal destabilisation […]

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Pleasure and pain in equal measure

Readers know that this feisty study of six of Keats’s poems promises something fresh when the author announces  in her preface that any serious reading of Keats begins with the section on ‘Private Property and Communism’ from Marx’s “Economic and philosophical manuscripts of 1844”.   Sean Sheehan   Anahid Nersessian’s […]

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State vs. Church

Why European courts don’t cut churches much slack during confinement.   Darrin Burgess   When Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York ordered a second wave of lockdowns last October to stem the contagion of Covid-19, he evoked the now-familiar distinction between essential and non-essential venues, and put severe restrictions on […]

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Recovering the Sacred in art

In the time between times, between lockdowns, I went to an art exhibition in Whitechapel Gallery, of work by Kai Althoff.   Steve Latham   A German-born artist from Cologne, now resident in the US, Althoff’s paintings are largely figurative. This is appropriate, given the Whitechapel’s championing of a revival […]