One of the many French thinkers who felt the impact of Claude Lévi-Strauss's work was the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, who explained in a television interview that he had read his books as a "sort of practical anti-racist manifesto."

A blogger following Iranian social networks says that Charlie Chaplin's passionate denunciation of dictatorship in the 1940 film "The Great Dictator," with added Farsi subtitles, is popular at the moment.

If journalism is the first draft of history, what is a Wikipedia entry when it is updated within minutes of an event to reflect changes in a person’s biography? This is the very live issue that cropped up in a heated argument on the discussion page...