Germany has voted, the CDU has returned as the strongest force, and Friedrich Merz will most likely be the next chancellor. But the massive gains for the AfD, which doubled its vote to over 20%, mean that for the first...
A deceptively simple question animates Imperfect Solidarities (Floating Opera Press, 2024), a short new book by writer and art critic Aruna D’Souza: ‘What would it mean if our politics were based not on our ability to empathize with people whose experiences are...
Every year since 2010, the Danish government has published a list of ‘parallel societies’ which identifies certain areas and neighbourhoods as ‘at risk’. Hørgården, the housing complex made up of grey, modernist blocks in the southern part of Sønderbro, was...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd82vJQYB1o Since record keeping was invented, libraries and archives have been a crucial technology for human civilization. In the ancient Babylonian city of Nippur, rooms filled with clay tablets were found in a temple dating to five thousand years ago....
The Atlantic route to the Canary Islands, one of the world’s deadliest migration paths, has seen a dramatic surge in arrivals since 2020. NGO Caminando Frontera reports that the route claimed nearly 10,000 victims in 2024, with some boats drifting...
I am stepping down as editor-in-chief of Eurozine a title I have worn proudly since 2018 as we weathered many storms together – and I know very well that many a maelstrom are yet ahead for independent and quality publishing....
In my local diner the other day, two college students were sitting next to me talking about the 2028 presidential elections. They weighed and measured each potential candidate – Vance, Newsom, Cuomo, Ocasio-Cortez, Buttigieg, etc. – with bright, well-reasoned arguments,...
At the end of 2024, the Spanish government announced its intention to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Francisco Franco. This was not to be a low-key occasion: Pedro Sánchez, the Socialist prime minister, announced more than a...
‘Despite its universality, music is being silenced globally’, writes Index on Censorship’s editor-in-chief Sarah Dawood in her introduction to the journal’s current issue. Titled ‘Unsung Heroes’, it explores how forces such as nationalism and religious extremism are targeting the performance...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00KgO9gVjAU Waste management is the single most important civilizational function. The second we stop treating garbage and sewage, the cholera timer starts ticking and we only have days left until disease starts to wipe our settlements. The bigger the city...
