https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3wf92MwbB4 The emotional charge of politics has increased in the past decades. Expert governance and fact-based leadership were the leading claims in the 2000s, often ignoring that expertise wasn’t a neutral position either. As the pendulum swings back, strongly charged...
This article was first published by Index on Censorship on 10 April 2025. It appeared in Volume 54, Issue 1 of Index on Censorship’s print magazine, titled: The forgotten patients: Lost voices in the global healthcare system. Read more about the issue here....
Opening a dossier in Varlık on ‘Popular culture in flux’, Mutlu Binark’ offers an overview of the hegemony of North American cultural products in the 1970s. According to Binark, an ‘unjust communication network’ was imposed on the Global South for...
At times coy, at others demonstrative, the male body seemingly has its autonomy covered. Identifying as male comes with certain public assurances: while your genitalia is sacred, you are free to bare all else without reproach. But such liberties don’t...
Two years ago, my body gave out. ‘Burnout’, said the doctor, as he carefully wrote out a note ordering me to stop all professional activities. His look indicated that I would be needing his signature more often. What followed was...
Six months after the collapse of a concrete awning at the railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia is in the throes of a general rebellion against the regime of President Aleksandar Vučić. The November tragedy, in which sixteen people lost...
In the early morning of 25 April 1959, about ten masked men wearing white gloves entered the Pearl River County Jail in Poplarville, Mississippi. One of the guards let them in and led them to the cell where 23-year-old Black...
In early April 2021 the Belarusian author Victor Martinovich wrote an article for the news portal Budzma, in which he poured out his anxiety about what was happening in his country. ‘Every new morning is a challenge: Are you still...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gb5FY0QAX4 For those not too familiar with the internal affairs of Serbia, let me introduce two key players from today’s conversation: Aleksandar Vučić is a recurring character here. He has been in power in Serbia since 2012 in varying capacities,...
Tonight, I would like to talk to you about migration and identity. Perhaps the best way to start the conversation is with a presentation of myself. My name is Lea Ypi. I’m often introduced as a philosopher, as a writer,...
