Charlie Bertsch / 29 Jun 2022
Between Europe and America
Reconsidering Susan Sontag
There was a time in the 1960s and 1970s when Susan Sontag somehow became an international star. (...)
Immigration
Josh White / 09 May 2022
Dead Centre
Blairism Without Blair
Twenty-five years after winning a landslide victory, Tony Blair haunts the Labour Party.(...)
John Foster / 25 Mar 2022
Diversity Without Nationalism
Heaven in Disorder, by Slavoj Žižek
One is always a bit apprehensive when cracking the latest publication by the eminent Slovenian curmudgeon Slavoj Žižek.(...)
Josh White / 29 Nov 2021
Drowning in Hatred
Britain’s Immigration Debate
Borders bring almost as much insecurity as security.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 30 Jun 2021
The Art of Listening
This is What Europe Sounds Like, by Joel Schalit
This is What Europe Sounds Like makes for uneasy listening. Not because of strident guitars, disturbing lyrics, or aggressive atonality, but because it refuses to meet the expectation of music at all.(...)
Wieland Hoban / 06 Apr 2021
Jews and the German Left
The JID Interview, Part II
Like Muslims, Jews in Germany often complain about being stereotyped. (...)
Wieland Hoban / 26 Mar 2021
Jewish in Germany
The JID Interview, Part I
Israelis in Germany. Say what? Few stories about European immigration have been as loaded, and complex as those about Jews moving from the Middle East to Germany. (...)
Wieland Hoban / 04 Mar 2021
Palestinians and the German Left
The Ramsis Kilani Interview, Part II
If it was just about numbers, in Germany, Jews and Palestinians could be equals. (...)
Filip Noubel and Yevgeniya Plakhina / 12 Feb 2021
The Problem With Navalny
A Central Asian Perspective
Today, the view among most members of the liberal Russian opposition, as well as in the West, is that any mistakes Alexey Navalny might have made in the past should be overlooked in the name of his fight against President Vladimir Putin's political system.(...)
Joe Keady / 29 Jun 2020
The White Nationalist Experience
Profiling the Ideologues
Despite the contemporary far-right’s propensity for hard-line nationalism, it's a global phenomenon. (...)