Culture

End-times narratives and the end of narrative: storytelling as story-selling; zombie fiction for Derrideans; resisting teleology.

For the philosopher Harry Frankfurt, the essence of bullshit was not the intention to deceive but ‘indifference to how things really are’. But does that make bullshit worse than lies? Are we not all, sometimes, bullshitters?

Beyond Beck’s risk society; manufacturing uncertainty; leftist survivalism; Dufourmantelle vs. Anders; love, risk and polyamory.

Since 2020’s ‘revolution with a female face’, Lukashenka has ramped up his neo-Soviet family policy while continuing to persecute women disobedient to his regime.

How the Iranian regime co-opts women’s football; Snyder on Carney’s Havel; a poet on the beauty of sign language.

Despite a transatlantic exchange of far-right ideology, material interests are what bind the international of nationalists. Why transatlantic patterns in far-right strategy do not add up to a rightwing populist tide.

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Why the rules-based order was never pure fiction; how Europe can remain non-aligned; lessons from Greenland.

Starving ethnic Ukrainians and Moldovans, fleeing 1930s collectivisation, became controversial refugees in Romania – if, that is, they survived Soviet riverside gunfire. The international press and politicians expressed outrage – until the Nazi regime became a greater threat, leaving Holodomor

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