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Helen Lewis, Catherine Flay

Helen Lewis on Sex, Power and Influence

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Griselda Pollock

Love and Beauty after Feminism
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Finn Mackay

The Failure of Patriarchy
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Evie Prichard

When Women Rule the World…
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Michael Irwin

Rationalising Suicide
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Niamh Corbett

Women in Business
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Alison Wolf

The XX Factor
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Serena Kutchinsky

Eggs: To Freeze or Not to Freeze?
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Kurt Barling

The Strangeness of Race
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Kwasi Kwarteng

Wealth, Justice and Prosperity
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4 Perspectives on Feminism
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Rupert Read

The New Utopianism
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Margaret Heffernan

A Woman's World
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Issue 53: Utopia
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Niki Adams

Is Feminism Failing Sex Workers?
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Sexual Harassment and Feminism
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Kate Kirkpatrick

What is authentic love? Simone de Beauvoir's View
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Helen Beebee, Heather Widdows

Weinstein, philosophy, and structures of abuse
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Enzo Rossi

What Michelangelo’s David Can Teach Us About Radical Politics
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Kate Kirkpatrick

Simone de Beauvoir's #MeToo
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Daniel Morgan

Are Addicts Truly Powerless?
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Paula Erizanu

Cosmopolitanism and the Mixed Blessings of the Windrush Scandal - An Interview with Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Paul Davis

Why Does the World Cup Give Rise to Domestic Violence?
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Kwame Anthony Appiah

The Lies That Bind Us
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Luke Hunt

Informants, Police, and Unconscionability
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Siobhan Kattago

Hannah Arendt on why you must break your bubble
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Thomas Mulligan

Meritocracy Is Good But We Don't Have It
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Agnieszka Golec de Zavala

What Can We Do About Collective Narcissism?
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Paul Morland

The future of race relations
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Barrett Holmes Pitner

Existence and inequality
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Emma Sayle

Unnatural sex