Charlie Bertsch / 08 Feb 2023
Resisting the Status Quo
Catalogue’s Modern Delusion
Marseille trio Catalogue’s new album Modern Delusion demonstrates why we need music criticism more than ever.(...)
Coronavirus
John Foster / 21 Jan 2022
Neoliberal Crisis Analysis
Aftershocks, by Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright
The rapid spread of the Omicron variant has buried hopes the world might be ending its morbid embrace of COVID-19.(...)
Joel Schalit / 10 Jan 2022
Asylum From Germany
The Coronavirus Shakes
They asked what the purpose of our visit was. “We’re fleeing Germany,” I said, as I handed over our Israeli and American passports. “My wife and I want to apply for asylum.”(...)
Duncan Simpson / 15 Dec 2021
Pandemic Politics Anxieties
China’s Social Credit Model, Part I
As winter descends across Europe, fears over a new surge in infections, driven by the latest Coronavirus variant, are reviving authoritarian anxieties. (...)
John Foster / 26 Nov 2021
Germany of the Future
Replacing Angela Merkel
Sixteen years of leadership by any party is too long. Particularly for a country half of which is still new to democracy, like Germany.(...)
Ruslan Trad / 22 Nov 2021
New Regime Needed
Bulgaria’s COVID Crisis
One would think that the political crisis, the lack of government, and the third consecutive parliamentary election in a year are hard enough situations for Bulgaria.(...)
John Foster / 12 Nov 2021
Inequality is Still Wrong
Time for Socialism, by Thomas Piketty
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” Penned towards the end of the Vietnam War by Hunter S. Thompson, in his 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the statement sounds truer than ever.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 10 Nov 2021
Pandemic Expressionism
Sonic Hauntology: Subterranean Internationale, by Raz Mesinai
Sonic Hauntology, Raz Mesinai's new album of field recordings for The Battleground, pushes that peculiar genre in exciting new directions. (...)
Basilio Korman / 22 Oct 2021
Coronavirus Hijackers
Forza Nuova and the Roma Riots
The Green Pass is the Italian version of the EU Digital COVID Certificate. (...)
Duncan Simpson / 08 Sep 2021
Ideological Upheaval
Pandemic Rebels and Fascist Longings
Since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic, opposition to anti-contagion efforts has been led by a small number of fringe groups and quasi-movements linked together by social media.(...)