Condemned to Barbarism
The Populist Doomloop
It’s not that there’s a spectre haunting Europe. It’s that there are too many.(...)
The Populist Doomloop
It’s not that there’s a spectre haunting Europe. It’s that there are too many.(...)
Italy After Gaza
I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s in a middle-class, northern Italian household.(...)
The Spanish Challenge
Breathe easy. Spain’s Socialist leader, Pedro Sánchez, has won a second term in office. This is the best possible outcome of the July election. Not just for Spain but also for Europe.(...)
Joseph Fronczak’s Everything is Possible and Rachel Maddow’s Prequel
The difference between right and left is who you blame. On the left, it’s capitalism and colonialism. On the right, it’s the Frankfurt School and LGBTQ.(...)
The German Contradiction
Over the last four years, I have collected countless pieces of evidence of how the idea of Germany - whatever Germans tell themselves about what Germany was, what it is, and what it should become - is interwoven with narratives claiming 'Jews' and 'Arabs' are different from each other, and deeply rooted in a state of enmity.(...)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun
The Marriage of Maria Braun is a cinematic speedball, tugging the heart in opposite directions until it cannot bear the strain.(...)
The Battleground’s Fall Books List
Wendy Brown’s Nihilistic Times
Max Weber is the thinker of modernity par excellence.(...)
A Family Story
Every July, Montenegro remembers its antifascist history.(...)
Surviving Artificial Intelligence
You’ve seen it before. It’s a title that screams marketing department, with all the requisite keywords required to stand out at an airport bookstore:(...)