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My favourite cartoon shows two European intellectuals (berets, cigarettes) at a sidewalk café. One says to the other: “Do you not be happy with me as the translator of the books of you?”

The joke, of course, is that no one would ever hire this man to translate their book. But the tragic joke is that it isn’t a joke anymore. Some British universities are …

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