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Current Affairs

A Magazine of Politics and Culture

Mattie Lubchansky

The Time Travails of Ben Shapiro

Ben Shapiro journeys through space and time to go annoy other societies for a change.

Illustrations by Matt Lubchansky.

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Celebrating our Ninth Year of publication! Lots to stimulate your brain with in this issue: how to address the crisis of pedestrian deaths (hint: stop blaming cars!), the meaning of modern art, is political poetry any good?, and the colonial adventures of Tinin. Plus Karl Marx and the new Gorilla Diet!

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