The commodification of housing and how to fight back Since the 1980s, a wave of privatization has turned housing into a market commodity. Though tourism platforms and corporate landlords are more present than ever, an …
To conserve is to preserve the status quo and resist change; revolutionary is to desire change, usually by violent means. Suppose that a certain country had a most agreeable constitution and liberty, but that this …
Pablo Picasso, the iconic “Artist of the 20th Century,” died fifty years ago. A major exhibition commemorating his work begins at the Albertina in Vienna on Friday 17 March. We present a personal Picasso reflection …
If the collective sacrifice during the Second World War cemented Russian identity in the absence of consensus, then the attack on Ukraine does the same but to a different end. The new ‘we’ feels inescapable, …
Ukraine denial is the root cause of Putin’s genocidal war. Since he is unwilling and unable to abandon this ideological obsession, talk of negotiations by western ‘peacemakers’ looks like an attempt to avoid responsibility. The …
The New Yorker, a prominent liberal weekly, hosted a freewheeling debate in its pages about how the war aggression has transformed Ukrainians’ relationship with Russians. Among other things, it raised the question of how to …
He has been following Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine up close for a year. Martin Dorazín (54), a recent recipient of the prestigious Ferdinand Peroutka Journalism Award, has been in the field for practically thirty …
One year on from the escalation of Russia’s invasion and there’s no sign of conflict resolution in Ukraine. While controversy abounds over political negotiations, constructive discussions about bearing witness to war and what of Ukraine’s …
Can Russian athletes just compete with others in the world when the Russian army has been killing civilians and destroying homes in Ukraine for a year? How many Russian athletes have distanced themselves from the …
Measures such as ‘ethical AI’ and ‘good data’ will not bring about social justice, end racial capitalism or forestall climate disaster. How to channel discontent and counter-hegemony into an actual transfer of power in the …
