The Committed, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
“Why should I worry about deviating from the masses when I am also me and myself? Am I not a mass? Am I not already a collective? Do I not contain multitudes?” (...)
The Last Neoliberal, by Bruno Amable and Stefano Palombrini
There is a case to be made that the left is dead. (...)
Vaccine Passports and Human Rights
As vaccination programmes in Europe and America accelerate, there is increasing clamour for their benefits to be fast-tracked through the use of vaccination or immunity passports.(...)
Peter Salmon, in Conversation With John Foster
The spectre of Jacques Derrida haunts the world. Sixteen years after his death, he remains one of the most polarising figures in Western intellectual life, lauded and reviled in equal measure.(...)
Peter Salmon’s An Event, Perhaps
We are living in a post-truth society, so we are told, in which everything is permitted, and the power of assertion is now equal to or greater than that of ascertainable facts.(...)
Secularising the Conflict
Whether in the boycott French products campaign on social media or through conversations with friends, Muslims I know feel conflicted about the recent terrorist attacks in Vienna and Nice.(...)
Profiling the Ideologues
Despite the contemporary far-right’s propensity for hard-line nationalism, it's a global phenomenon. (...)
The COVID-19 Con
The crisis through which we (or at least most of us) are now living is defined by biopolitics. (...)