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“Capitalist democracies can’t solve climate change.” Discuss.
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Marina Ovsyannikova and others arrested for opposing the Putin regime.
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Colin McGinn on the philosophy of mind: “All machine and no ghost?”
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This article appears in the 18 May 2022 issue of the New Statesman, Putin vs Nato