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Shattering the Neoliberal Fairytale

Angela Smith

Winter 2020

Paris, January 2020

Ranil was a few minutes early for the pickup at my apartment. I climbed into his shuttle van and we started crawling along Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, electric scooters and bikes whizzing by. The Génie de la Liberté, the gilded figure on top of the Bastille monument symbolising the spirit of freedom, loomed in the distance.

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