The United States ends 2020 under the weight of a pandemic and strong political polarisation accentuated by Trump, and enters a year in which a new government will take power with numerous challenges ahead, including the health crisis and divided politics. Martha Andrés Román To a large extent, […]
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Unfolding the politics of memory
Writing about Kafka, Walter Benjamin explains how the word ‘unfolding’ has two meanings: a bud unfolds into a blossom while a paper boat unfolds into a flat sheet of paper. Sean Sheehan Two years later, writing “The storyteller”, he says how storytelling, rooted in oral tradition, allows the […]
Living in a shadow
Common wisdom has it now that Joe Biden’s entire presidency will exist in the shadow his predecessor’s, given the impact that President Trump has had on voters in the U.S. Darrin Burgess That situation may be just fine with Biden himself. Trump has failed, first of all, to […]
Facing the future with the new “Big-C”
Sometimes, after I take a nap, I wake up, and wonder where I am, and what’s happening. It takes a few moments for memory to kick in. Steve Latham I feel like that with Covid. I blurrily try to work out what’s going on now, as the scene […]
Church vs. State
Why European courts don’t cut churches much slack during confinement. Darrin Burgess When Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York ordered a second wave of lockdowns last October to stem the contagion of Covid-19, he evoked the now-familiar distinction between essential and non-essential venues, and put severe restrictions on […]
















