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		<title>A Prophet of What?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[French cinema is the high-visibility indicator of a great country&#8217;s cultural hara-kiri. Awards ceremonies are always fundamentally political, but in France they&#8217;re actually&#8230; fundamentalist. After winning at Cannes last years, the film A Prophet was fawned over at the Césars, with no less than nine awards. Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BA in Equality and Bomb-Making</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the US, the process whereby a hick church can become a Sunday school then &#8220;college&#8221; then &#8220;university&#8221; in only a few short years is trenchantly and hilariously documented in Paul Fussell&#8217;s Class: A Guide through the American Status System. An equivalent &#8211; only slightly less radical &#8211; change happened in the UK when technical [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allan Bloom traces the popular enthusiasm for criminality to the 19th century German philosophers. Culturally &#8211; according to him &#8211; the new appetite hits the mainstream with &#8220;Mack the Knife&#8221; from Brecht&#8217;s and Weill&#8217;s The Threepenny Opera, in 1928 Weimar Germany. It was the first time the bourgeoisie could blithely &#8211; almost compulsively &#8211; sing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End of the Ride</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A headline to stop you in your tracks: US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive. The article is mostly about Flint &#8211; the poorest city on the US: &#8220;The obsession with growth is sadly a very American thing. Across the US, there&#8217;s an assumption that all development is good, that if [...]]]></description>
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