Borrowing from Erdoğan’s playbook
On 5 February 2025, two weeks after Donald Trump assumed the role of US president, Argonotlar (“Argonauts”), a queer art publication in Turkey, issued an urgent letter to its readers....
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On starlings and the thermodynamics of life
A murmuration of tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of starlings, flying in such perfect synchrony that they look like a single, billowing, pulsing organism against the night sky:...
My testament
Growing up as a naive schoolboy in the 1990s, I was surrounded by the Belarusian language and Belarusian culture. My generation had been saturated by a wave of hasty Belarusification,...
Nobody cancels what nobody reads
‘Cancel culture’ is a highly charged term, coming down hard on questionable behaviour. It divides opinion: there are those who believe it levels the playing field for marginalized communities; others...
Embracing Imperfection: My Quirky Morning Routine! ☕
Agathe was waiting for me at the door. As always, I was running late. While brushing my teeth, I took my bag from my room and remembered that before leaving...
Instrumentalizing summer camps
On 18 February 2025, Ukraine marked three years since the start of Russia’s mass deportations of Ukrainian children, a crime of genocide, according to the Rome Statute of the International...
Philosophy and the bomb
Blätter observes the eightieth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki with an article by Hans Joas entitled ‘Peace or Freedom?’. In it the social...
A Political Class in Crisis 🤔📉
In June 2024, after European elections that were a clear rejection of his party Renaissance, French president Emmanuel Macron dissolved the National Assembly in an act that only cemented his...
Liberty on the line
Titled ‘Land of the Free?’, Index on Censorship’s summer issue explores how the fundamental freedoms enshrined in the US Constitution – freedom of religion, speech, the press, protest and petition...
Neither here nor there
We are many Severinosand our destiny’s the same:to soften up these stonesby sweating over them,trying to bring to lifea dead and deader land,to try to wrest a farmout of burnt-over...
