CULTURE

I was at a Holiday Inn just off a Los Angeles highway when the Gulf War started. We were on holiday in the US for the first time, and I was looking forward to everything that a nine-year-old who lived...

Surprise correlations between distinct texts are like chemistry. They spark transformations of thought. When reading Agri Ismaïl’s personally informed writing for Glänta on warfare in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq, I was compelled to revisit Anthony Downey’s academic text for...

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...