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Anne Räisänen
Rewriting History
The idea that our modern Western social order is inexorably the goal of social evolution should be dismissed. In the book The Dawn of...
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Women in War
Around 40 years after the Second World War, journalist-writer, Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich interviewed hundreds of women who served...
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Reacting or Processing?
Are all our reactions online really necessary: thumb-ups and emojis, comments on posts or on the comments of others? Or could we just...
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On the Brink of Destruction
Even though there is a horrifying stream of images of war flooding from Ukraine, I decided to watch again the historical war film Ran by...
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You have been sold
I got email from the New York State Communist Party. How on earth did this unknown party, from a distant continent, find my personal...
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Do not travel to this place!
Would you like to have thousands of noisy tourists messing around in your neighbourhood, making prices go up and possibly damaging unique...
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World Imprisoned in Words
The war in Ukraine gives a frightening opportunity to examine the power of words. Words create the world. Are we talking about a...
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In the Palm of a Monster
Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy is being praised everywhere. One reason for the success is certainly the fact that even if the novels...
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Ignorance is Bliss?
The background of the economic crash that began in the United States in 2008 is revealed to the common reader in the book Swimming with...
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On the Borderline between Good and Evil
Ann Heberlein’s book on evil sheds light on an eternal problem that is smouldering in our time as well: how people start to nest in their...
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How to live without money?
As an old-school citizen, I might not myself be able to live for several years as a vagabond and, well, a bit like a bum. But it’s not...
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To Write or Not to Write - That is the question
People are constantly hungry for fresh communication. It is about freedom of speech: the right to receive meaningful communication to...
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Free Money for All?
If you’re tired of hearing that social inequality is just a necessary consequence of the laws of economy at work, you can regain your...
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The Silence of the Sea
A civilized German officer, an admirer of high culture and a composer of classical music, stays in a house in occupied France. The master...
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