In my local diner the other day, two college students were sitting next to me talking about the 2028 presidential elections. They weighed and measured each potential candidate – Vance, Newsom, Cuomo, Ocasio-Cortez, Buttigieg, etc. – with bright, well-reasoned arguments,...
At the end of 2024, the Spanish government announced its intention to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Francisco Franco. This was not to be a low-key occasion: Pedro Sánchez, the Socialist prime minister, announced more than a...
‘Despite its universality, music is being silenced globally’, writes Index on Censorship’s editor-in-chief Sarah Dawood in her introduction to the journal’s current issue. Titled ‘Unsung Heroes’, it explores how forces such as nationalism and religious extremism are targeting the performance...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00KgO9gVjAU Waste management is the single most important civilizational function. The second we stop treating garbage and sewage, the cholera timer starts ticking and we only have days left until disease starts to wipe our settlements. The bigger the city...
In Soundings, Nira Yuval-Davis discusses how the bases of social trust have been eroded during the neoliberal era, which has also been a time of increased migration. This coincidence has brought to an end ‘the technology of multiculturalism, which, since the...
On 29 March, hundreds of thousands gathered at Istanbul’s Maltepe beach area – some even say it was 2.2 million. Waving flags and chanting slogans, the protestors demanded the release of Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul who had been...
I recall my visits to Podlasie, a region on the Polish border with Belarus – the border which divides extraordinary, primeval Puszcza Białowieska, the oldest Central European Forest, in half. I first visited the Forest at the age of ten....
On 24 January it was announced that the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, would be suspending funding for all its programmes and projects. This followed a US State Department directive on 20 January ordering a 90-day pause...
‘In the spirit of the times and against the grain’: with the title of his introductory essay to Osteuropa’s centenary issue, the journal’s longtime editor Manfred Sapper alludes to the contradictory history of the publication, which in many ways mirrors...
Historians of ideas have in recent years been attempting to understand neoliberalism as a political ideology, from its beginnings in the early 1940s through its multiple permutations to the present day. One of the leading thinkers in this movement is...
