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Our collective nuclear nightmare

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
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Some things never change, it seems. For my entire life people have been protesting about the madness of nuclear weapons. Policymakers have been studiously ignoring such protests for just as long. Not only have the bombs remained unbanned, they have also proliferated and become bigger and “better”.

To Barack...

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The Witch – excellent supernatural fodder

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageFrom left: Anya-Taylor Joy as Thomasina, Kate Dickie as Katherine, and Ellie Grainger and Lucas Dawson as impish brats Mercy and Jonas in Robert Eggers' recent The Witch (2015)Parts and Labor

There haven’t been many films about witches in recent years. Stories explicitly scapegoating women as “mad” and “hysterical”...

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Westall '66: 50 years on, still stranger than fiction

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageThis way to the Grange Westall

Beliefs, webs, tears

Unlike Bethsheba’s husband, our beliefs about the world do not go out to face the music alone.

The most basic beliefs you can think of—say: that right now, my son is in the room with me—are not stand alone affairs. They are framed by a whole series of other beliefs: in this case,...

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