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Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

The changing meaning of antisemitism

Around 15 years ago, together with two colleagues, I was compiling and translating an anthology that was eventually published as The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry. We were eager to include previously

Why on earth would I want to walk to Auschwitz, the biggest site of mass murder on the far side of Poland? The fact that I’d already walked half the distance is only part of the answer. Two years earl

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