CULTURE

My life’s work is literature, which has humanity at its very centre. I am therefore accustomed to viewing history not so much as an account of events but as the stories of people who create events.   The year 2020 was...

Big technology companies have enormous and outsized power. They control what information we can share and how, and demonstrate little transparency or accountability to users about what they are doing. They are too often permitted to set their own arbitrary...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPTIro1JzMc More and more young people are using social media way too much, according to a survey by the World Health Organisation. The proportion of adolescents with problematic use rose from 7 per cent in 2018 to 11 per cent...

‘The sacred is not a great something that you bow down to, but what determines your values, what you would take a stand for.’ Starhawk   ‘Politics is that dimension of social life, in which things become true if enough people...

Global media coverage of Trump’s inaugural parade at the Capital One Arena in Washington, DC focused on one episode alone: the raised hand of the world’s richest man. Opinions were divided on the meaning of Musk’s gesture. While the Israeli...

Ukrainians’ heroic defence of their homeland has raised the question of whether other European nations would possess a similar determination in the event of Russian aggression. Doubts about this were conveyed by the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, who two months...

A conversation between Carola Lentz, German social anthropologist and president of the Goethe-Institute (2020-2024), sociologist Teresa Koloma Beck and philosopher Omri Boehm. Carola Lentz: The three of us have different disciplinary backgrounds and we have lived and researched in different...

How has Ukraine’s position shifted over the last three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion? What will change now that the new US administration is intervening, blaming Ukraine for the escalation of war? And how seriously should we take Trump’s bid...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS4Sed2JYyw Ukraine has been standing up to the full-scale agression since February 2022, and as today’s guest, Maksym Kyiak put it: Russia had thought they would conquer Ukraine in 3 days, but they haven’t managed to bring Ukraine to its...

Since Donald Trump’s call with Vladimir Putin on 12 February and a series of other diplomatic moves aimed at kicking off Russia–Ukraine peace talks, the war in Ukraine has returned to the top of the international media agenda. For outsiders,...