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Hilde De Weerdt

[long_description] From the end of the sixth century onwards the written civil service examinations became a staple of life in Imperial China. These examinations were used, among other things, to assign positions in political office, and thus to reduce the power of aristocratic families. Hilde de Weerdt examines the rise of the civil service examination, and reassesses its promise of social mobility.

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States of War

Jochen Böhler

[short_description] In the aftermath of the First World War, new nations sprang up in central and eastern Europe. If their creation marked the end of one conflict, it also marked the initiation of many others.

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A Continent Divided

Silvio Pons

[short_description] In Stalin and the Fate of Europe, Norman Naimark examines Joseph Stalin’s foreign policy objectives in early postwar Europe. In each of his seven case studies, Naimark focuses on how Stalin’s shifting strategies were shaped by local leaders who were anything but passive participants.

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A Passage from India

David Berlinski

[short_description] In Bland Fanatics, Pankaj Mishra reveals that in his thoughts on British imperialism, he is very much a member of the moral majority. Imperialism was, Mishra believes, evil in its consequences.

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Disinformed

Adam Garfinkle

[short_description] Deepfakes create an illusion of reality more convincing than any produced in the past. Now is a time in which the line between reality and spectacle have already been blurred, Adam Garfinkle argues.

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Inequality and Human Rights

Katharine Young

[short_description] Samuel Moyn argues that the human rights movement has done little to address economic inequality. Not so, according to Katharine Young. Good work promoting equality has been done, if not in the US.

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Striking Second First

Jean-Pierre Dupuy

[short_description] In theory, nuclear weapons are pure deterrence. Yet the world’s nuclear arsenals remain on alert and at risk of becoming a doomsday machine. Jean-Pierre Dupuy reviews a new book by Daniel Ellsberg.

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Greek to a Greek

Wolfgang Streeck

[short_description] Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis did his best to hold off demands for reforms and austerity. His account of those efforts, Adults in the Room, makes for a strange but indispensable book.

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Inevitability and Eternity

Paweł Machcewicz

[short_description] In The Road to Unfreedom, Timothy Snyder details efforts by Russia to exert influence on the democratic processes in the West. Paweł Machcewicz shares Snyder’s concerns about the scale of the problem.

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Freud in Kigali

Omar Shahabudin McDoom

[short_description] Why do torture, violation, and degradation take place during genocides and mass atrocities? Omar Shahabudin McDoom reviews The Macabresque by Edward Weisband.

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The Language of the Third Reich

Jörg Riecke

[short_description] The philologist and diarist Victor Klemperer documented the perversion of the German language under the Nazis in Lingua Tertii Imperii. Jörg Riecke examines Klemperer’s life and lasting significance.

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Godzooks

David Berlinski

[short_description] David Berlinski reviews Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. To the question of whether human beings are shortly to become like gods, Berlinski answers not any time soon.

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