The Compass

‘Prolonging the life of this bizarre case’

  • August 7, 2025
  • Robert Coalson

Persistent echoes of the Scopes ‘monkey trial.'

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Edward R. Murrow, a journalist of a different era

  • August 1, 2025
  • Marvin Kalb

Who will stand up for the truth in our time?

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Going toe to toe with ‘vandals and demagogues’

  • July 23, 2025
  • Robert Coalson

A conversation with Jeffrey Gedmin.

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Mein Kampf 100 years on

  • July 17, 2025
  • Neil Gregor

What is its significance for Germany's resurgent far right?

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Back to Bangdong village

  • July 14, 2025
  • Matthew Chitwood

A post-Covid visit to rural China reveals what it means to be a neighbor.

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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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