Right now, the dominant narrative of those that occupy political and economic power-centres, and those whose careers and lives are wedded to militaries, is that a new world war is looming, and that we need to get ready. One person...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqHkfesAduQ Digital publishing has turned many journalists into mere line workers in the content production industrial complex. But what about the young journalists embarking on this professional mission today? This discussion was inspired by Paulina Januszewska’s book Bullshit journalism, whose...
The remembrance of the Second World War has shifted significantly in recent decades – and even more dramatic reinterpretations appear to be underway in our current moment of drastic uncertainty. More than three years since Russia launched its full-scale war...
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My husband and I are sitting on the beach at Šimuni on the island of Pag. The season hasn’t started yet. The shore is almost completely empty. I try not to think about anything, but it’s in vain. A little...
For much of the second half of the twentieth century, the Second World War and its aftermath were interlaced with western Europe’s present. The war was understood to have birthed the world that emerged in its wake. This is no...
It is sometimes said that the Second World War began in the Horn of Africa, in 1935, with Italy’s war of aggression on Ethiopia. It is almost never said that it ended there. And yet, it was the first place...
Since 24 February 2022, it will have become clear to everyone that Russia has not only challenged but also violated in every respect the European security order embodied by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and its...
Just where on earth are flying cars, wondered American anthropologist David Graeber 12 years ago. Like all of us who grew up in the 1960s watching The Flintstones, he believed that flying cars would become part of our adult life...
Sometimes a phrase gets stuck in your head. Year after year, it pops up, often triggered by specific situations or places. For me, it is impossible to walk pass a cemetery without silently whispering, ‘history is a graveyard of aristocrats’....
