Samhälle & Politik

Homosexuality is a taboo subject in the Arab world. While clerics denounce it as a heinous sin, newspapers write cryptically of 'shameful acts' and 'deviant behaviour'. Amid the …

Respected conservative journalist and commentator Timothy P. Carney continues the conversation begun with Hillbilly Elegy and the classic Bowling Alone in this hard-hitting …

On 24 April 1916, as President of the Provisional Government, Patrick Pearse appeared under the GPO Grand Portico on Dublin’s O’Connell Street and read aloud the Proclamation of …

Why do we look at lynching photographs? What is the basis for our curiosity, rage, indignation, or revulsion? Beginning in the late nineteenth century, nearly five thousand blacks …

More than 12 million German-speaking civilians in Europe were driven from their homes in the wake of WWII, yet barely anyone noticed or remembers Immediately after the Second World …

Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a wealth of discussion and controversy about the idea of a ‘postnational’ or ‘cosmopolitan’ politics. But while there are many …

What is the relationship between cosmopolitanism and secularism—the worldwide and the worldly? While cosmopolitan politics may seem inherently secular, existing forms of secularism …

Aikamme terävimmän filosofin herättelevä kirja maailman nykytilasta. Maailma on sekasorron tilassa. Ison-Britannian EU-ero, Trumpin valinta presidentiksi ja joka puolella käynnissä …

“A vital read for a nation under Trump.”­—The Guardian “No single book is as relevant to the present moment.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen“One of the defining books of the …

Part original myth. Part philosophy. Part madness. The hound barks. Will the herd listen?