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A champion self-advertiser, maven of the brag and the humblebrag, Whitman announces in the first pages of Specimen ...

Hayek had understood that persuading any society to accept the rigours of capitalist freedom was never going to be easy.

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Months before the Trumpist onslaught on higher education, US universities were rushing to prohibit protest encampments. Why do some ramshackle tents on lawns present such a threat to authority – as ...

Hugh Roberts has died from cancer at the age of 76. Among his books were a collection of penetrating articles ...

The pyramids are so central to the modern view of Egypt, and to Egyptian tourism, that it is hard not to speak ...

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