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Marek Kohn

Marek Kohn is a British-based writer who specializes in issues of science and society, contributing to the Financial Times, Prospect magazine, The New Statesman, and The Guardian, among other publications. Among his eight books are A Reason For Everything: Natural Selection and the English Imagination (2004), As We Know It: Coming to Terms with an Evolved Mind (1999), and The Race Gallery: The Return of Racial Science (1995). His most recent book, Four Words for Friend: Why Using More Than One Language Matters Now More Than Ever, was published in February 2019. (November 2019)

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Europe’s Contested Ideas of National Identity

Although I was born in England, my father was a Polish citizen at the time, which made me a Polish citizen, too. With that citizenship came the right to vote: the capacity to act as a citizen, not just to be one. Brexit had brought the importance of that realization home to me.

November 12, 2019