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Prime minister Justin Trudeau, after just two years of minority government, has called an election with the shortest campaign period that the law allows. He wants …
Dear Mr Gates,
I am writing this open letter to you because I believe you have crossed the line by leveraging your fortune to maneuver State Governments and, indeed, the U.S. Government …
A professor of international history debunks a widely-held myth among Americans.
Matthew Fitzpatrick is a Professor of International History, particularly German history, at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
Our growing list of interviews
The German Press Agency (DPA) described us in 2001 as A way out of the political woods. Arguably one of the most challenging new interactive websites to pop up in cyberspace. Now Die Zeit presents our essential work (unacknowledged) in a seriously flawed version.
Anarchist thinkers, their ideas, and the extraordinary story of an often misunderstood strain of radical political thought.
Matthew Adams is an historian of British intellectual history, with a special interest in the development of anarchism as a political tradition.
