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Ipek S. Burnett

Ipek S. Burnett

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War and the Illusion of Power

Economic decline. Weakening poll numbers. Political desperation. War has long been the answer. It provides an enemy to rally against, a spectacle of...

04.03.2026 10

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Ipek S. Burnett

Ginsberg’s “America” Revisited

January 1956, Allen Ginsberg wrote: “America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.” It is January 2026. I’m not sure if we’ve given it...

19.01.2026 30

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“Things Happen”: Murder According to Trump

Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. Seven years later, Donald...

20.11.2025 6

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Operation Newspeak

George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is a warning about political repression, historical revisionism, mass surveillance, propaganda, censorship, and...

18.03.2025 10

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Trump’s Manifest Destiny

Puerto Rico. Guam. The U.S. Virgin Islands. American Samoa. The Northern Mariana Islands. Today these unincorporated territories are inhabited by U.S....

14.02.2025 10

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Ipek S. Burnett