The Stakes of Syrian Soccer and Language Without Meaning: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing
The highlights from seven days of reading about the world
by Anna Diamond
May 19, 2017
3 minutes
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Masha Gessen | “When I was a young journalist, I went back to my country of birth to work in my native language. In the early 1990s, Russian journalists were engaged in the project of reinventing journalism—which itself had been used to perform the opposite of conveying reliable information. Language was a problem. The language of politics had been pillaged, as had the language of values and even the language of feelings: after decades of performing revolutionary passion, people had become weary of the very idea of passion.
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