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Photograph shows several levels of books and framed portraits at the Imperial Public Library, now National Library of Russia.
October 23, 2025
How can institutions fostering open inquiry survive authoritarian assaults?
A gay couple wearing matching T-shirts printed with an image of Vladimir Putin, featuring a moustache in the colors of the LGBTQ+ flag, walk arm in arm during the STOP HOMOPHOBIA demonstration in Berlin on August 31, 2013. The protest, organized by the group ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, called for a boycott of the Sochi Olympics over Russia’s anti-gay propaganda laws.
October 22, 2025
Sergey Khazov-Cassia’s newly translated novel reimagines Christ’s story as a parable of queer suffering and resistance in Putin’s Russia
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Sex & Gender
“Masc Only”
September 30, 2025
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Sex & Gender
The Left Needs a Better Defense of Trans People
April 24, 2025
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Feminism
Enemy Feminisms
April 8, 2025
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Feminism
Yes, Some of Our Enemies Are Feminists
April 8, 2025 and
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Sex & Gender
The Taliban’s Systematic Erasure of Women Is Crippling Afghan Society
April 7, 2025
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Russia
Vladimir Putin, Man of Yesterday
February 19, 2025
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Russia
To Cancel or Not to Cancel? Questioning the Russian Idea
October 1, 2024
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Russia
Academic Dialogue Against the Background of War
October 1, 2024
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Russia
New School Community Statement on Navalny’s Assassination and in Support of Ukraine
March 6, 2024
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Russia
The Man Who Was Too Strong
February 20, 2024
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Hungary
Hungary Is on the Edge of Dictatorship
April 11, 2020
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Hungary
The EU’s University in Exile
December 3, 2019
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Hungary
Hungary: How Liberty Can Be Lost
July 23, 2019
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Hungary
Democracy in Hungary
April 10, 2019
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Hungary
Democracy in Hungary? 
March 5, 2019
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Poland
What’s Lost Along the Polish-Belarusian border
June 26, 2025
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Poland
Violence and Policing Minorities
March 12, 2025
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Poland
“The Symbolic Equivalent of a Pogrom” in Poland
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Poland
The Powers and Limits of Hospitality: Lublin, Poland
May 17, 2022
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Poland
A Connection That Never Expired
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Film & Performing Arts
Revelations and Reservations at the 2025 New York Film Festival
October 10, 2025
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Film & Performing Arts
In I’m Still Here, a Mother Refuses to Let a Dictatorship Rewrite Reality
April 9, 2025
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Film & Performing Arts
Manga Colossus Goes Inflatable on Broadway
November 26, 2024
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Film & Performing Arts
The Transformations of Katherine Dunham
June 11, 2024
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Film & Performing Arts
“I was concerned for her knees”
April 16, 2024
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Religion
The New Political Theology
September 24, 2025
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Economy
Trump vs. the Fed
August 27, 2025
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Democracy
Trump, Thucydides, and the Corruption of Language
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United States
Trump Versus Los Angeles, Immigrants, and the Rule of Law
June 12, 2025
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Disability
Greg Abbott’s Wheelchair
June 10, 2025