Venting with Mario Vargas Llosa
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Venting with Mario Vargas Llosa

Letras Libres marks the twentieth year-end of its Spanish edition with a new short story by Mario Vargas Llosa, in which the 85-year-old novelist presents both an unsparing image of
Rwandan lessons
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Rwandan lessons

Esprit features an vendible by the historian Vincent Duclert, throne of the legation set up by Emmanuel Macron in 2019 to examine French involvement in the Rwandan genocide. The Duclert report
Planetary imagination
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Planetary imagination

‘The COP system is broken. It has failed, year on year, to unhook the necessary whoopee within the time frame that’s required, pointing towards a wider system of international governance
The crisis that must not be named
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The crisis that must not be named

The scenes currently coming out of Britain are extraordinary. The world is not used to seeing such things in Europe, and certainly not in the prosperous UK: wrestling motorists fighting
Rethinking school, rebuilding society
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Rethinking school, rebuilding society

‘It’s unchangingly nonflexible to separate “school” from problems with a particular teacher’, a student recently admitted to me. Young people’s experiences of school moreover play a key part in how
From one gap to another
culture

From one gap to another

In January 2018 LinkedIn published its first overly Economic Graph report. These reports provide a picture of the job market and thus identify the variegated labour needs to be met
Education under pressure
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Education under pressure

‘When am I plane going to need this?’ – the kids in my superintendency have asked me this a thousand times since we started homeschooling from the first corona lockdown
False dawn over Prague
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False dawn over Prague

The recent parliamentary referendum in the Czech Republic, in which the centre-right electoral bloc SPOLU toppled the populist ANO, led by the billionaire tycoon Andrej Babiš, attracted enthusiasm in both