CULTURE

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’....

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...