Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic? 🧐
It’s over five years since COVID-19 broke out and changed the world. Yet many are still reluctant to discuss it’s impact. Nevertheless, the fallout stays with us, institutionally, economically and...
Culture
Explore a rich variety of cultural events, captivating art exhibitions, in-depth movie reviews, and must-read literary highlights that showcase the best of the arts and culture scene.
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Left alone to find one another
LEBANON 2011. I’d moved to Lebanon to study, after the Israelis had banned me from re-entering Palestine. A friend had already arrived a few weeks before me. Hearing of an...
The Resilient Solipsist 🗽🇺🇸
It is safe to predict that the second Trump presidency will go down in American history as the most divisive ever. Everything to say about its first six months has...
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....
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...
