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  • Konrád (in sweater and jacket) talking with someone at the Liberal Party headquarters, 1990
    Konrád (in sweater and jacket) talking with someone at the Liberal Party headquarters, 1990
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    The Proust of Disillusion

    Remembering the Hungarian writer and dissident György Konrád, who died last month at age 86

    byEdward Serotta
  • A picture of Liu Xiaobo seen inside the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, 2010.
    A picture of Liu Xiaobo seen inside the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, 2010.
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    Twitter’s Theater of Radical Cruelty

    Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo’s death is the latest occasion for social media-propagated callousness and ignorant moral arrogance

    byJamie Palmer
  • Flowers and a portrait of Valeriya Novodvorskaya with inscription 'Heroes do not die,' on the fence of the Russian embassy in Kiev, Ukraine.(Sergii Kharchenko/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
    Flowers and a portrait of Valeriya Novodvorskaya with inscription 'Heroes do not die,' on the fence of the Russian embassy in Kiev, Ukraine.(Sergii Kharchenko/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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    A Requiem for Russia’s Last Great Dissident, Valeriya Novodvorskaya

    She was an enforcer of liberal morality in the face of cultish leader worship in the former Soviet Union. Who can take up her mantle?

    byVladislav Davidzon
  • The Hungarian Parliament, Budapest.(Brandon Doran/Flickr)
    The Hungarian Parliament, Budapest.(Brandon Doran/Flickr)
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    The Lives of Others

    Hungary has made a hard turn to the political right, but Holocaust survivor Karl Pfeifer, who in three decades of journalism has assailed Hungarian communists and Austrian fascists, refuses to let anti-Semitism return unchecked

    byJames Kirchick
  • “Free Yigal Amir” protesters outside the Hasharon prison, near Tel Aviv, where he is being held.(David Furst/AFP/Getty Images)
    “Free Yigal Amir” protesters outside the Hasharon prison, near Tel Aviv, where he is being held.(David Furst/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Dissonance

    Yigal Amir assassinated Yitzhak Rabin 15 years ago in an effort to derail the Oslo peace accords. Now his wife, a Russian émigré, is trying to turn him into a heroic Soviet-style political prisoner.

    bySasha Senderovich
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