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BOILING POINT? RUSSIA AND THE WEST
AoI International Salon, Thursday 3 February, 7pm (UK) via Zoom
December’s Letters on Liberty out now
Josie Appleton on toxic sociality during the pandemic, Harley Richardson on the liberating potential of education and Phil Harrison on the seductive power of literature.

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Letters on Liberty
NEW: essays on how the pandemic made sociality toxic, the seductive power of literature and the liberating potential of education.

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A ‘nudge’ too far? The rise of behavioural science and technocratic rule
Battle of Ideas festival, 10 October 2021

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Boiling point? Russia and the West
AoI International Salon, Thursday 3 February
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