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A political class gasping for breath

In June 2024, after European elections that were a clear rejection of his party Renaissance, French President Emmanuel Macron dissolved

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Instrumentalizing summer camps | Eurozine

On 18 February 2025, Ukraine marked three years since the start of Russia’s mass deportations of Ukrainian children, a crime

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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The president who preached revolution

… ever since 1789, there has been one magic word which contains within itself all imaginable futures, and is never