Age has slowed me down but at least no day goes by without reading bringing me the fascinating and penetrating insights of other minds. In this week’s column I record three such insights from the 
literally dozens discoverable every day.
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- If the writings of Karl Marx were now appearing for the first time, unsullied by the perversions of his thinking which tyrants like Stalin inflicted on the world, they would certainly be attracting great interest. Tony Judt, a distinguished European historian, describes why the insights which Marx brilliantly expressed more than a century and a half ago still have relevance.