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The unstoppable solipsist | Eurozine

[ad_1] It is safe to predict that the second Trump presidency will go down in American history as the most divisive ever. Everything to say

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Borrowing from Erdoğan’s playbook | Eurozine

[ad_1] On 5 February 2025, two weeks after Donald Trump assumed the role of US president, Argonotlar (“Argonauts”), a queer art publication in Turkey, issued

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Eternal twilight of the Ulster kind

[ad_1] In 1975, the American sociologist Michael Hechter published a book on the evolution of the United Kingdom; fifty years on, its insights are strikingly

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Religion and Secularism | Eurozine

[ad_1] 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

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The president who preached revolution

[ad_1] … ever since 1789, there has been one magic word which contains within itself all imaginable futures, and is never so full of hope

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Lula 3.0 and the austerity trap

[ad_1] Campaigning for his third term as president in 2022, Lula da Silva ran on a straightforward message: making Brazil “happy again”. Now, halfway through

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‘A’ at the end of the alphabet

[ad_1] Should sexual relationships, with all their complications, really be a benchmark of societal acceptance? Vox Feminae investigates the history of asexuality and aromanticism: pathologized

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Russia’s dreams of re-Union | Eurozine

[ad_1] For three decades after the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, political science and practical politics in Western Europe and North America very rarely addressed

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Writing on the wall, writing on the water

[ad_1] 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

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Writing is a job, not a mission

[ad_1] Every year in Poland we ritualistically lament the country’s low-level readership, but we are yet to see the state take any meaningful action. What