The Compass

Signage from Suriname’s ‘Casablanca’

  • July 10, 2025
  • Joel Millman

The capital’s residents hail from diverse cultures and languages. Could that present an opportunity?

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The velvet leash

  • July 2, 2025
  • Ilya Kolmanovsky

When do people fight for their freedom?

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Review: Opposing authoritarianism

  • June 18, 2025
  • Gregory Feifer

Benjamin Nathans’s history of the Soviet dissident movement has important lessons for today.

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On originality

  • June 18, 2025
  • Roger Reynolds

Challenges facing new music.

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‘This is not the end of moral universalism’

  • June 18, 2025
  • Robert Coalson

A conversation with Michael Ignatieff.

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Kafka’s The Trial: 1925-2025

  • June 17, 2025
  • Ritchie Robertson

A century after the novel’s publication, its portrait of arbitrary justice is increasingly relevant.

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