Tour of Babel
Tour of Babel is a regular Popula column, in which we translate the world’s words that can’t be translated, the phrases and expressions that don’t travel (but that also, it turns out, do).
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America is a Caliphate
All is not well in the realm, however.
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Une Fronde
The idea that a nation is congenitally disposed to rebellion or freedom can easily provide cover for servility and subjugation.
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In Search of the Verandah Boys
The capital WE of the hungry and disenfranchised
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The Requirement to Integrate
A few years ago, these words were openly reviled in Sweden as racist dog-whistling
“Libtard” in the Chinese style
Activists in China concerned with social justice issues are derided for their "baizuo" mentality.
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Our Own Private Cacique
I will cross my arms and Comala will starve.
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The Argentine Piquete
Rather than a strategic inconvenience, a more unsettling attack on the Order of Things itself.
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The Untranslatable Caudillo
Talk about caudillos is always, in reality, a discussion of their followers.
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Two-SIM
If given a chance, might she alter the political landscape?
