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Recent U.S. tariff policies have made mundane commodities remarkably visible, with almost every week bringing news about the logistics of importing or exporting essential items, from hamburgers to cement. The results are sometimes bizarre: a recent House hearing saw the U.S. commerce secretary insist that ‘we cannot build bananas in America’, in response to a […]
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Émile Zola’s Le Rêve—The Dream, in English—appeared in book form in October 1888. It was a strikingly slender novel, by Zola’s standards—the shortest of the twenty volumes that would make up his epic series about the Rougon-Macquart family (1871-93). Yet more curious was its subject: the fantasy life of one foundling Angélique Rougon, whose wayward […]
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The story goes that when Napoleon met Staël, he told her he didn’t like women talking politics. And she replied that in a period when women are beheaded, it is natural for them to want to know why. Daughter of Necker, prime minister of France as the Bastille fell, friend of Jefferson and Tsar Alexander, […]
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