- August 28, 2025
Philosophy and the bomb | Eurozine
Blätter observes the eightieth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki with an article by Hans Joas entitled ‘Peace or
The president who preached revolution
… ever since 1789, there has been one magic word which contains within itself all imaginable futures, and is never so full of hope as
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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