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The CIA’s most unlikely Cold War weapon? A secret smuggling operation that terrified Soviet censors
In the aftermath of the Second World War, as the Soviet Union imposed ideological control across Eastern Europe, the CIA ...
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"No worse employment exists" - Two Orwell essays depict brutal reality of 1930s working-class life
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of George Orwell's death, The New Statesman has published two essays by the author of ...
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Alberta’s Book Ban Is a Blatant Act of Cultural Vandalism
The push to sanitize school collections erases what literature is for: knowledge, discovery, the freedom to think The post ...