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My testament | Eurozine

Growing up as a naive schoolboy in the 1990s, I was surrounded by the Belarusian language and Belarusian culture. My generation had been saturated by

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On starlings and the thermodynamics of life

A murmuration of tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of starlings, flying in such perfect synchrony that they look like a single, billowing, pulsing

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Borrowing from Erdoğan’s playbook | Eurozine

On 5 February 2025, two weeks after Donald Trump assumed the role of US president, Argonotlar (“Argonauts”), a queer art publication in Turkey, issued an

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The unstoppable solipsist | Eurozine

It is safe to predict that the second Trump presidency will go down in American history as the most divisive ever. Everything to say about

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Eternal twilight of the Ulster kind

In 1975, the American sociologist Michael Hechter published a book on the evolution of the United Kingdom; fifty years on, its insights are strikingly pertinent

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Religion and Secularism | Eurozine

Let’s start with the basics: What is secularism? Well, according to the Enycolpedia Britannica, even scholars have a hard time defining it to the fullest,

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Sleep tight, mate | Eurozine

Loneliness is a serious public health issue. The Mental Health Foundation confirms that it makes it harder for people to connect, which leads to fear

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Lula 3.0 and the austerity trap

Campaigning for his third term as president in 2022, Lula da Silva ran on a straightforward message: making Brazil “happy again”. Now, halfway through his

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‘A’ at the end of the alphabet

Should sexual relationships, with all their complications, really be a benchmark of societal acceptance? Vox Feminae investigates the history of asexuality and aromanticism: pathologized by

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Writing on the wall, writing on the water

Cofiwch Dryweryn (remember Tryweryn). The walls exhort us in bright red and white, from Llanrhystud in West Wales to Chicago. And the writing’s not only