johnshaplin

  Twelve years ago, in the dawn of Central Asia’s independence from the broken Soviet Union, I had stood on the city’s crumbling plateau and...

  In the process of getting the ‘ literal truth’, what gets left out is precisely those elements of figuration – tropes and figures of tho...

    ‘ Christian theology never advocated extermination of the Jews’, writes George I. Mosse, ‘but rather their exclusion from society as l...

    This is the big lie, and the great disaster of politics: to place politics on one side and life on the other, on one side what is said...