The student protests in Serbia have persisted for seven months, yielding widespread and diverse effects. All state universities are still blocked and primary and secondary school teachers ceased work from January to April 2025. Lawyers went on strike throughout the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg_Iqbvm3Dk Convetional European diets often boast of meat-heavy signature dishes. Austria and Germanyare still at the top in per capita meat consumption, yet they lead when it comes to a meatless diet. A total of 15% of their combined populations...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHy9FOblt7Y Several years ago, we brought you a transcription and a couple of audio interpretations of the oldest known song in the world, discovered in the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit and dating back to the 14th century B.C.E.. Likely...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw Given the dominance YouTube has achieved over large swathes of world culture, we’d all expect to remember the first video we watched there. Yet many or most of us don’t: rather, we simply realized, one day in the mid-to-late...
In Russian the word for ‘border’, granitsa, carries a range of meanings which blur its definition as a territorial and administrative demarcation line. They include boundary, borderland, limit, margin, confine, threshold, littoral and frontier. The first syllable, gran’, translated as...
July marks the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica, which saw more than 8,000 men and boys massacred by Bosnian Serb forces. But what exactly will The Netherlands be commemorating? In The Dutch Review of Books, Guido Snel argues...
We live in the era of polycrisis, where ‘the horsemen of the apocalypse have to be dealt with together’. The June issue of Vikerkaar looks at crises ranging from the disruption of education by AI to national security anxieties in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhvoInEsCI0 One of the most propulsive forces in our social and economic lives is the rate at which emerging technology transforms every sphere of human labor. Despite the political leverage obtained by fearmongering about immigrants and foreigners, it’s the robots who are...
The decisive sex-change moment in movies, revealing a dramatic transformation, is far from reality. Transgender people face not only long assessment and surgery waiting lists but also bureaucratic hurdles when reassigning legal gender across countries, undermining their well-being and safety...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDBybzbVzZ0 Most Dylanologists disagree about which is the single greatest song in Bob Dylan’s catalog, but few would deny “Blind Willie McTell” a place high in the running. It may come as a surprise — or, to those with a...
