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Thomas Meaney: Western Promises
Thomas Meaney on Fritz Bartel, The Triumph of Broken Promises. The Cold War’s end recast as upshot of a contest to enforce capital’s discipline, East and West.

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Sebastian Veg: Three Vistas of Hong Kong
Sebastian Veg on Ming-Sho Ho, Be Water; Ching Kwan Lee, Forever Hong Kong; Edmund Cheng and Samson Yuen, The Making of Leaderful Mobilization. Studies of Hong Kong’s 2019 protests.

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Marcus Verhagen: The Art of Counter-Remembrance
In 2017, a fire killed 72 residents of Grenfell Tower in West London, exposing a bleak background of neglect. How can art grapple with such an event? Contrasting modes of aesthetic response explored in the works of Chris Ofili, Steve McQueen and Forensic Architecture.

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Loic Wacquant: Against Abolitionism
A sociological critique of calls for the wholesale elimination of police, courts and prisons, arguing instead for a radical ‘penal minimalism’—a better-funded system, with fewer suspects funnelled into it, and imprisonment a punishment of last resort.

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Richard Overy: Rethinking The Second World War
Interviewed by Tom Stevenson, one of Britain’s leading historians discusses the development of his understanding of the war as a terminal clash between imperial-colonial systems, built on close analysis of its interrelated military, political and economic dimensions.

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