From Punk to Rojava
The Adrestia Interview
Adrestia are one of the most important hardcore bands in Sweden today.(...)
The Adrestia Interview
Adrestia are one of the most important hardcore bands in Sweden today.(...)
Germany, Year Zero, Today
It’s hard to watch Roberto Rossellini’s 1948 film Germany, Year Zero to its conclusion. The mood is relentlessly bleak and the landscape bleaker still.(...)
Learning Anti-Colonialism in Ukraine
In school, we’d always have two different classes for Ukrainian and foreign literature.(...)
Reconsidering Susan Sontag, Part II
Even as Susan Sontag’s celebrity has dimmed, the time she spent in battered Sarajevo in the 1990s, directing Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot remains a touchstone in discussions of intellectual engagement.(...)
Lavrov’s Nuclear Threat
After two months of war, the Kremlin is finally owning up to the crisis it’s caused.(...)
The View From Torino
Russia’s Populist Exception
Twenty years ago today, it would have been the stuff of conspiracy theory.(...)
Ukraine’s Revolt, Russia’s Revenge, by Christopher Smith
If the war in Ukraine has taught us anything, it’s that really good henchman are hard to find.(...)
French Aid Workers in Poland
Everyone’s going to Poland. Not just from Ukraine, but Western Europe.(...)
The Downing Street March
Walking up Whitehall towards Downing Street, the demonstrators flew the flag of Ukraine and shouted “Stop Putin! Stop the war!”(...)