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What is needed now: real leaders Brussels, 13. Jan, 07:04 On January 28, 1919, German sociologist and economist Max Weber held a lecture for university students in Munich. Today, with Americans storming the Capitol and Europeans at each others throats because of a vaccine, this lecture proves to be rather topical again. Read and decide Get instant access to all articles — and 20 years of archives. 14-day free trial. Choose your plan Our exclusive news stories and investigations. Infl...

Our Favorite International Reads of 2020 (and What We’ll Be Reading in 2021)   Editor This year, Im keeping my recommendations to the Southern Cone, perhaps out of the wistful recollection that as we face gray, blustery afternoons here in New York, warmer climes hold elsewhere. Daniel Tunnard s  Escapes(Unnamed Press), set in a world in which competitive Scrabble is a globally televised craze under the thumb of the Scrafia (yes, a Scrabble mafia), is an uproarious novel staked on the final ...