Wieland Hoban / 02 Sep 2022
Volunteering is Life
The 27th Farkha Festival
From 31 July to 7 August, the 27th annual Farkha Festival took place in the village of Farkha, in the occupied West Bank.(...)
Editorial
Heather Allansdottir / 15 Aug 2022
Universitet Lessons
Russia After the Arab Spring
In 2015, I moved to Moscow to spend a year teaching human rights. I lasted five months. As my former students from that time are arrested for protesting the Ukrainian war, here are some reflections on what I learned about the evil of Putin and the kindness of Russians.(...)
John Foster / 12 Aug 2022
Marx on Neoliberalism
Hyperculture, by Byung Chul-Han
Korean-German philosopher Byung Chul-Han is the quintessential postmodern figure. Having to come to Germany to study metallurgy, he switched fields and mastered the argot of German philosophy.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 10 Aug 2022
Post-War Youth
400 Blows After Netflix
François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows is one of cinema’s all-time classics, the 1959 film that demonstrated how deftly a new generation of French critics could transform themselves into the filmmakers of la nouvelle vague.(...)
Josh White / 08 Aug 2022
Old Europeans
Thinking With Borders
Not many newspapers begin life like The New European. (...)
Krystle Thorpe / 04 Aug 2022
No Apologies to Chris Rock
What Will Smith Should Have Said
Everyone has something to say about the violence at the 2022 Oscars, whose host called “the greatest night in the history of television”.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 03 Aug 2022
Sounds About Space and Time
III, by Holy Tongue
Holy Tongue is a testament to the ongoing versatility of the dub aesthetic, roughly half a century since it began to branch off as a separate musical genre.(...)
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 01 Aug 2022
Life Under Thatcher
Working for the Iron Lady
It’s remarkable how candidates in the Tory leadership race have channelled Margaret Thatcher. Especially as they're barely old enough to have experienced her policies.(...)
John Foster / 29 Jul 2022
The Antisemitism Party
Labour and the Forde Report
The Forde Report represents a new stage of the malaise afflicting the Labour Party.(...)