John Foster / 13 Jan 2023
The Greens Are Dead
Lützerath and German Environmentalism
Be careful what you wish for. It may be a cliché, but it's one the Greens are learning all over again.(...)
Environment
Charlie Bertsch / 13 Oct 2022
The Illusion of Progress
Red Desert Revisited
Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert (1964) is one of the most beautiful films ever made about ugliness.(...)
John Foster / 04 Dec 2020
Climate and Change
Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline
The threat posed by climate change is among the most common of concerns repeated these days. All too often it’s expressed by the sort of person who is as unlikely to do anything.(...)
Ernst Stetter / 06 May 2020
Coronavirus vs. the Environment
The European Green Deal
We shouldn’t have had to go through it. But the Coronavirus crisis has taught us some hard lessons. Most importantly, that globalisation, as it works today, is a failure. (...)
Joel Schalit / 22 Nov 2019
Every Genocide is Special
Extinction Rebellion and the Holocaust
For a week, it seemed, Berlin had been taken over by the left. Not just any left but something new and unrecognisable. In the place of the customary red and black flags of anti-capitalist groups, protestors were waving flags featuring an hourglass, in soft greens and light blues. (...)
Maxim Edwards / 04 Nov 2019
The Nord Stream 2 Tug of War
Caught Between Two Gas Giants
Nord Stream 2 is going ahead. Last Wednesday, after two and a half years of delay, Denmark’s government gave permission for a section of the natural gas pipeline to pass through its exclusive economic zone in the Baltic Sea. (...)
Heather Allansdottir / 14 Oct 2019
Taking Greenland Seriously
It’s Not About America
Greenland briefly bubbled up into the global consciousness this summer when Donald Trump’s offer to purchase the country was quickly dismissed as “absurd” by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. (...)
John Foster / 30 Aug 2019
Read Between the Lines
The Battleground Fall Books List
Do you ever get the feeling that you’re living through some kind of crazy dystopian novel? (...)
Matt Rubenstein / 08 Jul 2019
The Post-Ideological Party
The Greens and German Politics, Part II
Blame it on the climate crisis. That’s what the German press has done. Winning 20.5% of the national vote in this year’s EU elections, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (the Greens) nearly doubled their 2014 showing.(...)