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  • The 'Nischel' in Chemnitz, Germany, a Marx sculpture by Lew Kopelew.
    The 'Nischel' in Chemnitz, Germany, a Marx sculpture by Lew Kopelew.
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    Just Because Anti-Semites Talk About ‘Cultural Marxism’ Doesn’t Mean It Isn’t Real

    In the second of a series inspired by Paul Berman’s opus on ‘The State of the Left,’ a conservative writer argues that while the term ‘cultural Marxism’ has been appropriated by some bigots and conspiracists, the existence of the ideology is a matter of historical record

    byAlexander Zubatov
  • Aerial photo of Auschwitz-Birkenau, taken by a reconnaissance aircraft for the U.S. Air Force, 1944.(Wikimedia Commons/Bundesarchiv)
    Aerial photo of Auschwitz-Birkenau, taken by a reconnaissance aircraft for the U.S. Air Force, 1944.(Wikimedia Commons/Bundesarchiv)
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    The Unforgivable Sin of Survival

    Only now, years after he survived Auschwitz, can we hear the alienation and fury of H.G. Adler’s newly translated ‘Shoah Trilogy’

    byAdam Kirsch
  • Judith Butler. (Getty Images)
    Judith Butler. (Getty Images)
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    What Theodor Adorno Wrought

    Judith Butler is the perfect recipient for a prize named after the patron saint of obfuscation

    byLiel Leibovitz
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    (Frank Rumpenhorst/EPA/Corbis)
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    The Professor’s Shoddy History

    Berlin’s Jewish Museum gave Judith Butler and Germans permission to indulge dangerous political impulses

    byJames Kirchick
  • Caricature of Benjamin as Klee’s Angelus Novus.(Via Athens Indymedia)
    Caricature of Benjamin as Klee’s Angelus Novus.(Via Athens Indymedia)
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    Gathering Storm

    Aberrant Marxist, heretical Jew, maverick social theorist—Walter Benjamin remains difficult to classify, but his mystique only continues to grow

    byDavid Kaufmann
  • Heimrad Bäcker(Photo © Franz Linschinger, courtesy Dalkey Archive Press.)
    Heimrad Bäcker(Photo © Franz Linschinger, courtesy Dalkey Archive Press.)
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    Repurposed

    Heimrad Bäcker’s ‘documentary poems’ turn artifacts of evil into the stuff of art

    byJoshua Cohen
  • Max Horkheimer (left) and Theodor Adorno (right), with Jürgen Habermas and others in the background, right, in 1965 at Heidelberg.(Wikimedia Commons)
    Max Horkheimer (left) and Theodor Adorno (right), with Jürgen Habermas and others in the background, right, in 1965 at Heidelberg.(Wikimedia Commons)
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    Frankfurt on the Hudson

    How the fathers of Critical Theory found their way to America

    byAdam Kirsch
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    The Office Series, Day Two: Before Kafka

    How the writer found his way to an office

    byJoshua Cohen
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