Long Reads: Oliver Gloag on Jean-Paul Sartre and the Crimes of Empire
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The War in Algeria - The Space for Intellectuals to Write
In 19 65, in a series of pleas, it's called the pleas for an intellectual, a sat defines the role of an intellectual. And he is challenging what he calls organic intellectuals, intellectuals who are there to defend the interests of their social class. He calls them false intellectuals. The novelist polison used to call them guard dogs of the system. So litonmodan carries on with that courageous mission of being the place to challenge intellectually the war an vietnan like no other space in the french press.
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