Bernard Charbonneau (1910–1996) was a pioneer of the ecology movement and a fierce critic of the tourism industry, which he argued brought with it exactly what tourists were trying to escape. By Patrick Chastenet via Esprit / @cairninfo.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/you-can-get-...

‘You can get on a plane, but you can’t truly ever get off’

Bernard Charbonneau (1910–1996) was a pioneer of the ecology movement and a fierce critic of the tourism industry, which he argued came from an authentic desire to escape the city, but which brought w...

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Even in the fifth year of Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine, a deep-rooted moral paralysis prevents the Russian opposition from demanding justice for the crimes committed by the state both during Soviet rule and since. By Sergei Lebedev via @osteuropa.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/impunity-cre...

Impunity creates impunity

Even in the fifth year of Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine, a deep-rooted moral paralysis prevents the Russian opposition from demanding justice for the crimes committed by the state both during Sov...

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Profiles without selves, or boycott Facebook now; Sartre, Heidegger and Whatsapp; a biography of Orhan Veli, one of Turkey’s great 20th-century poets. Review of Varlık 7/2026 www.eurozine.com/the-anxiety-...

The anxiety of distance

Profiles without selves, or boycott Facebook now; Sartre, Heidegger and Whatsapp; a biography of Orhan Veli, one of Turkey’s great 20th-century poets.

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Against the backdrop of the ‘special operation’ in Ukraine and a historically low birth rate, the authorities in Russia are waging an unprecedented campaign against the right to choose to be a mother. By Olga Borisova via @indexoncensorship.org www.eurozine.com/policing-wom...

Policing women’s right to choose

Against the backdrop of the ‘special operation’ in Ukraine and a historically low birth rate, the authorities in Russia are waging an unprecedented campaign against the right to choose to be a mother.

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Biljana Plavšić’s universe of concealment; why it’s the middle classes the Left needs to watch; how to know with uncertainty; who decides who deserves welfare? Review of @nlboekengids.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/how-not-to-i...

How not to interview a war criminal

Biljana Plavšić’s universe of concealment; why it’s the middle classes the Left needs to watch; how to know with uncertainty; who decides who deserves welfare?

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How do you write the history of a displaced society when sites of memory have been destroyed, libraries looted, and archives made inaccessible? Tracing the evolution of Palestinian historiography is to analyse responses to this enduring challenge. By Jihane Sfeir www.eurozine.com/fighting-era...

Fighting erasure

How do you write the history of a displaced society when sites of memory have been destroyed, libraries looted, and archives made inaccessible? Tracing the evolution of Palestinian historiography is t...

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Leo XIV’s Augustinian style of communication; what to expect of the unexpected pope; prospects for women’s equality; the demise of the Catholic intellectual. Review of Rivista il Mulino 2/26 www.eurozine.com/the-church-o...

The Church of Leo

Leo XIV’s Augustinian style of communication; what to expect of the unexpected pope; prospects for women’s equality; the demise of the Catholic intellectual.

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Miriam Țepeș-Handaric via Scena9 on far-right disinformation targeting Roma communities in Bulgaria & Romania tapping into existing fears of discrimination, doubling up prejudice. Can community support help restabilize progressive social programmes? www.eurozine.com/networks-of-...

Networks of suspicion

Far-right disinformation targeting Roma communities in Bulgaria and Romania taps into existing fears of discrimination, doubling up prejudice. Can community support bring the much-needed equilibrium t...

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The art of compassion in the digital age; multilingualism and culture in Slovenia; Green futures in China; conversations in The Gambia. Review of Sodobnost 6/2026 www.eurozine.com/a-laboratory...

A laboratory of attention

The art of compassion in the digital age; multilingualism and culture in Slovenia; Green futures in China; conversations in The Gambia.

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Though the development is uneven, the direction of travel is clear, as coalitions between conservative and far-right parties become the more viable option at both the national and European levels, writes Claus Leggewie www.eurozine.com/the-mainstre...

The mainstreaming of the European far right

Though the development is uneven, the direction of travel is clear, as coalitions between conservative and far-right parties become the more viable option at both the national and European levels.

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Gwen John’s competing passions; a sunny vision of Wales; Jules Verne’s Scotland; intergenerational trauma in Belfast. Review of O'r Pedwar Gwynt 1/2026 www.eurozine.com/romance-on-t...

Romance on the edge of Europe

Gwen John’s competing passions; a sunny vision of Wales; Jules Verne’s Scotland; intergenerational trauma in Belfast.

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Revisiting Georgia’s history of higher education offers a new way of understanding both its European aspirations and the obstacles that stand in their way, says the rector of Tbilisi’s Ilia State University. Via @voxeurop.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/georgias-unf...

Georgia’s unfinished European journey

As academic freedom comes under pressure in Georgia, revisiting the country's complex history of higher education offers a new way of understanding both its European aspirations and the obstacles that...

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Tháinig a lá. Our co-founder (2007), and until last year joint editor, at Books Upstairs in D'Olier Street, Dublin in front of a display of his newly published 'The Dark Side of France: Thirteen Chapters in the History of the French Far Right'. You'd have to say that he doesn't look hugely pleased.

'Contemporary independent and parallel cinema has ceased trying to curate an illusion of a harmonious, unified nation. Instead, it is attentive to the splinters which, left unattended, can eventually pull a society apart.’ Arundhati Virmani

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Contemporary India cinema depicts everyday lives improvizing ways to overcome a divided society. Personal contact surpassing fears of authority: a theme reflective of other cultures where religion and tradition take divisive roles. Arundhati Virmani via @iwm.at

‘Despite all progress made in the name of science, no one has yet conducted an experiment in which life arises spontaneously out of non-living matter. Yet at some point, somewhere, life came into existence.’ Fredrik Höök

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Darwin may have described the origin of species, but he was careful to avoid theorizing on life itself. Bold contemporaries publicly pitted spontaneous generation with experiments on broth. While Pasteur’s persistence was rewarded, the origin of life remains mysterious, writes Fredrik Höök

When citizens are the targets of direct military action, humanity suffers alongside those under fire. First-hand insights of travelling to Ukraine’s war zones are reminders of just how close Russia’s ongoing war is, writes Siân Norris via Krytyka. Available in French via Esprit. (Link in Comments)

While male convicts are being offered their freedom to fight on the front line against Ukraine, women sentenced to time behind bars is on the rise under Putin. For some, solidarity campaigns provide crucial lifelines, writes Eilish Hart via @neweasterneurope.eu (Link in Comments)

As a writer, Slavenka Drakulić sought to evoke the life of the single individual in a way that made empathy possible, writes her friend @marcishore.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/to-compose-a...

‘To compose a sentence was to take a moral stance’

As a writer, Slavenka Drakulić sought to evoke the life of the single individual in a way that made empathy possible, writes her friend Marci Shore.

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With her concrete observations of everyday patriarchy, Slavenka Drakulić left a deep mark on a generation of women readers, writes her friend Marija Ott Franolić www.eurozine.com/life-exists-...

‘Life exists to be described’

With her concrete observations of everyday patriarchy, Slavenka Drakulić left a deep mark on a generation of women readers, writes her friend Marija Ott Franolić.

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Talking with atheists and religious minorities explodes the myth of a homogenous Islamic Republic of Iran. But secular views remain otherwise concealed, writes Saleem Vaillancourt via @newhumanist.bsky.social

Contemporary India cinema depicts everyday lives improvizing ways to overcome a divided society. Personal contact surpassing fears of authority: a theme reflective of other cultures where religion and tradition take divisive roles. Arundhati Virmani via @iwm.at

Contradictions and possibilities of the state: neo-neoliberalism versus state capitalism; census-taking and the state imagination; the politicization of childbearing; James C. Scott’s anarchist squint. Review of Fronesis 90–91 (2026) www.eurozine.com/the-present-...

The present state

Contradictions and possibilities of the state: neo-neoliberalism versus state capitalism; census-taking and the state imagination; the politicization of childbearing; James C. Scott’s anarchist squint...

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In the 50th issue of Atlas: a cautionary tale about the manosphere; gentrification myths; a meditation on authority, power and cultural ownership; freedom despite war. Review of Atlas Magasin 2/2026 www.eurozine.com/living-langu...

Living language

In the 50th issue of Atlas: a cautionary tale about the manosphere; gentrification myths; a meditation on authority, power and cultural ownership; freedom despite war.

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From late-90s punk to ‘Happyism’, the trajectory of former The Flowers front-man Wowkie Zhang exposes a dialectic typical of China’s mainstream: alternative impulses constantly surface, are monetised, then recur in new guises. Soundings/@lawrencewishart.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/from-punk-re...

From punk rebellion to happy consumerism

From late-90s punk to ‘Happyism’, the trajectory of former The Flowers front-man Wowkie Zhang exposes a dialectic typical of China’s mainstream: alternative impulses constantly surface, are monetised,...

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Eurozine is deeply saddened by the news of the death of Slavenka Drakulić, a member of the Eurozine Advisory Board and regular contributor. We have lost a European intellectual in the true sense. www.eurozine.com/chronology/s...

Slavenka Drakulić 1949–2026

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After being forced to leave Croatia in 1992, the writer and feminist Slavenka Drakulić set out to explain her homeland to a western public. She will be remembered for the moral wisdom and humanity running throughout her work, writes Carl Henrik Fredriksson www.eurozine.com/a-moral-comp...

A moral compass: Slavenka Drakulić (1949–2026)

After being forced to leave Croatia in 1992 following her criticism of the nationalist regime, the writer and feminist Slavenka Drakulić set out to explain her homeland to a western public. She will b...

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Darwin may have described the origin of species, but he was careful to avoid theorizing on life itself. Bold contemporaries publicly pitted spontaneous generation with experiments on broth. While Pasteur’s persistence was rewarded, the origin of life remains mysterious, writes Fredrik Höök

'One of my greatest fears is the fear of forgetting. I remember when I first got scared of it at the beginning of 2023, after some time on the front line. It seems to me that remembering and enshrining is one way to win, one way to compensate for something' Artur Dron

Eurozine@eurozine.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Winner of the prestigious Yuri Shevelov Prize at age twenty-five, Ukrainian soldier and writer Artur Dron shares honest reflections on defining moments that strip back the superfluous in an interview with @the_ukrainians. Available in English and Ukrainian via the link in the comments!

“Ordinary people could not what these monsters did. We are ordinary people, therefore we cannot commit such crimes. But once you get closer to the real people who committed those crimes, you see that the syllogism doesn’t really work.”--Slavenka Drakulić (1949-2026), observing trials in the Hague

Palestinian historiography as struggle against erasure; a film about narrative and loss; Standing Together; debate as the first step to a renewed political imagination. Review of Esprit 6/2026 via @cairninfo.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/palestine-a-...