In the Middle East, they do not approve of Russia’s war against Ukraine, but their streets are abuzz with criticism of the immediacy with which the US and European countries acted, while Tel Aviv’s violations have been ignored for decades. They refer to the measures taken against Russia, for […]
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Veganism goes abroad
Veganism began officially in 1944 when some of the outliers of the Vegetarian Society asked for space in the British Vegetarian Society’s newsletter for those who don’t eat dairy products. Sean Sheehan They were turned down. It must have been a hard life in the fifties and sixties […]
Russia and NATO, a journey to the bottom of a conflict
In 2007 the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, asserted during the Munich Security Conference that with its expansion, in violation of its promises, NATO was threatening his country and reducing the level of mutual trust. Oscar Julio The Kremlin’s worries were ignored and shortly afterwards, in 2008, the alliance […]
A palliative society, a bare survival
Byung-Chul Han is a Korean-born philosopher, based in Germany. Training initially as a metallurgist, he moved west and switched disciplines, becoming now one of our chief public intellectuals. Steve Latham He has examined the impact of social and technological change on the psyche of contemporary culture, concentrating on how […]
Ukraine, the graveyard of Putin’s dreams?
Fukuyama’s influential claim that history – driven by the conflict of ideologies – ended with the end of the USSR and Gorbachev’s commitment to stop interfering in the affairs of eastern European countries, was revised by its author in 2018. He adapted his analysis to say instead that identity is […]
















