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Shapeshifting fascism and the broken promises of social democracy

Letters: Readers respond to Daniel Trilling’s article asking if fascism is making a comeback

The Guardian - UK

Talk is precious: in the age of communication collapse, Jürgen Habermas’s message remains vital

The philosopher, who has died aged 96, was often caricatured as a consensus-seeking liberal. But his belief in the need for shared understanding had a radical underpinning, says German philosopher Eva von Redecker

The Guardian - UK

Jürgen Habermas obituary

Philosopher and social theorist who advocated a new direction for German thought after the horrors of Nazi rule

The Guardian - UK

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Eminence grise of German philosophy Jürgen Habermas dead at 96

He was regarded as one of Germany's most influential contemporary philosophers. Jürgen Habermas has died in the Bavarian lakeside town of Starnberg.

Euronews

‘Do you want to say I’m dated?’ Artist Anne Imhof on her S&M Venice shocker – and the show that earned a mauling

She was the art world’s hottest ticket after her confrontational goths-and-dobermans show at the Venice Biennale. But did she get too cosy with the worlds of fashion and advertising?

The Guardian - UK

Music can lift mood, foster community and even rewire brains – but does it need to have a purpose?

The therapeutic role music can play is the focus of a string of new books and even an entire BBC radio station. But why can’t we just listen to music for music’s sake?

The Guardian - UK

It’s ‘the intelligence age’, say tech titans – but information will not save us

“We have entered the Intelligence Age,” proclaimed Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, in September. “Deep learning worked,” he explained, and this breakthrough in learning from data will unleash a smart era in which the more data becomes available, “the better it gets at helping people solve hard problems”.

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Why do pop stars align themselves with astrology? Heaven knows

Ariana Grande, SZA and Kacey Musgraves are just a few of the musicians to invoke astral powers in their songs. It’s a reach for relatability – but what does it mean for songwriting?

The Guardian - UK

‘I think therefore I scam!’ The lost masterpiece about the con artist who said he performed 36 successful hysterectomies

Chameleon Street, a true-crime comedy about the fraudster who purportedly passed as a lawyer, a surgeon and even a basketball-player, fell foul of a racist Hollywood. Can it now be a hit? We speak to its director

The Guardian - UK

We can't fight authoritarianism without understanding populism's allure

Populists across the globe have had a rough couple of years.

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