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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever. George Orwell...

It seemed like an ordinary Tuesday in Frankfurt, the financial heart of Europe. Hundreds of bankers were busy working in...

‘Well-informed cynicism is only another mode of conformity.’ (Max Horkheimer) ‘Let’s smoke feelings together, it’s all about you, me and...

‘Decolonisation’ has become the word of the year in our corner of the academic world. I will admit to some...

How can we learn to live next to violent deaths, mass graves, and knowledge of rape and torture? When looking...

I. When I visited China in the mid 2010s, it was as if I had found myself back in Czechoslovakia...

In May 2023, we published an essay in De Nederlandse Boekengids/The Dutch Review of Books about the responsibility of Europe...

En la actualidad se calcula que hay más de 3.500 millones de personas en el mundo que viven en regiones...

Alexei Navalny is being mourned as Russia’s most daring, sophisticated and Western-looking politician. Yet Navalny’s political struggle with tyranny, which...

1. Today, to talk about the future of Russia is like talking about life after death. Russia is in the...