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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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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Why the normalisation of the AfD is not a rightwing Godesberg à la Bardella but a lowering of the threshold of respectability via a new far-right political-media ecosystem:

Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik@blaetter.bsky.social · 2w ago

Einige sich selbst als bürgerlich definierenden Kräfte machen die radikale AfD anschluss- und koalitionsfähig, indem sie diese zu einer ganz normalen Partei erklären. Das ist hochriskant: www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2026...

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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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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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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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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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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“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-...

Labour needs to take a step back and remember what it has in Starmer, right? Wrong 👇🏼

Dissent Magazine@dissentmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Labour is going nowhere fast. With three years still left in power, the decisions the party makes now could make the difference between a surprise comeback and outright extinction. https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/britains-doom-loop/

The Czech leader Andrej Babiš appears unwilling to succeed Orbán as figurehead of European illiberalism. But whoever emerges to fill the gap, Orbánism remains a political force, writes @apolenarychlikova.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/orbanism-aft...

Orbánism after Orbán

After Orbán’s defeat, Andrej Babiš remains the only member of the Patriots for Europe group with real power. But the Czech leader appears unwilling to succeed Orbán as figurehead of European illiberal...

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From Élisée Reclus and Peter Kropotkin to Rachel Carson, Murray Bookchin and André Gorz: the anarchist tradition understands ecology not as top-down conservation, but as practice of cohabitation. Simon Guyomard and Édouard Jourdain via Esprit @cairninfo.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/ecology-to-a...

Ecology to an anarchist beat

From Élisée Reclus and Peter Kropotkin to Rachel Carson, Murray Bookchin and André Gorz: the anarchist tradition understands ecology not as top-down conservation, but as practice of cohabitation.

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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? By Quassim Cassam via Dublin Review of Books www.eurozine.com/when-is-bull...

When is bullshit real bullshit?

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, ...

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A fascinating and appalling insight into the gaping void at the centre of British government and a Labour party that squandered everything. Superb writing (again) by @patrickmaguire.bsky.social and Gabriel Pogrund.

Beyond Beck’s risk society; manufacturing uncertainty; leftist survivalism; Dufourmantelle vs. Anders; love, risk and polyamory. Review of Wespennest 190 (2026) www.eurozine.com/risk/

Risk

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

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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. By Tatsiana Astrouskaya via @neweasterneurope.eu www.eurozine.com/populism-and...

Populism and motherhood in Belarus

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.

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Despite a transatlantic exchange of far-right ideology, material interests are what bind the international of nationalists. And despite transatlantic patterns in far-right strategy, talk of a rightwing populist tide misses the point, argues @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/a-transatlan...

A transatlantic far-right?

Despite a transatlantic exchange of far-right ideology, material interests are what bind the international of nationalists. And despite transatlantic patterns in far-right strategy, talk of a rightwin...

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Why the rules-based order was never pure fiction; what Europe must do to remain non-aligned; lessons from Greenland; Jan-Werner Müller on Trump. Review of Vikerkaar 5/2026 www.eurozine.com/how-small-st...

How small states can survive

Why the rules-based order was never pure fiction; what Europe must do to remain non-aligned; lessons from Greenland; Jan-Werner Müller on Trump.

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The vilification of Orbán in Europe became politically counter-productive in Hungary itself. Péter Magyar’s success is founded on a realistic appraisal of the concerns of Hungarian society instead of a moralistic politics of blame, writes Ferenc Laczó www.eurozine.com/the-meaning-...

The meaning of Viktor Orbán

The vilification of Orbán in Europe became politically counter-productive in Hungary itself. Péter Magyar’s success is founded on a realistic appraisal of the concerns of Hungarian society instead of ...

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Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz was defeated by a grassroots movement in an extraordinary act of popular mobilization. The attempt to restart democracy in Hungary stands a better chance of success than at any time since 1989. But caveats apply, writes Stefano Bottoni www.eurozine.com/hungarys-res...

Hungary’s restart

Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz was defeated by a grassroots movement that faced down systematic intimidation in an extraordinary act of popular mobilization. The attempt to restart democracy in Hungary stands ...

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Habermas’s insistence on negotiation with the Putin regime stemmed from a failure to comprehend the eastern European experience of totalitarianism. By Claus Leggewie and Daniel Cohn-Bendit www.eurozine.com/western-alig...

Western alignment without looking East

Habermas’s insistence on negotiation with the Putin regime stemmed from a failure to comprehend the eastern European experience of totalitarianism. The argument that regime change is not a legitimate ...

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Hungary: Orban loses historic election The new Private Eye is out now.

Habermas understood that the possibility for German–Jewish dialogue after the Holocaust depends on commitment to universal law. But when the past demands silence about the present, that possibility is denied, writes Omri Boehm www.eurozine.com/dialogue-and...

Dialogue and silence

Habermas understood that the possibility for German–Jewish dialogue after the Holocaust depends on commitment to universal law. But when the past demands silence about the present, that possibility is denied. On the contradictions in Habermas’s exemplary cosmopolitan project.

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Hungary’s elections will be decisive for the future of the anti-EU pressure group MCC Brussels. How would an Orbán defeat impact on the illiberal international? By @martinbright.bsky.social via @indexoncensorship.org www.eurozine.com/hungary-lead...

Hungary leads the far-right charge on free speech

Hungary’s elections will be decisive for the future of the anti-EU pressure group MCC Brussels, the international arm of the Fidesz-associated Matthias Corvinus Collegium. How would an Orbán defeat im...

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Stigmatized during socialism, LGTBQI+ people in Slovakia continued to face political and social adversity in the following decades. Two veteran activists reflect on the campaign for equal rights after ’89 and why it remains as necessary as ever. Via Kapitál www.eurozine.com/another-nove...

Another November: Queer Slovakia after 1989

Stigmatized during socialism, LGTBQI+ people in Slovakia continued to face political and social adversity in the following decades. Two veteran activists reflect on the campaign for equal rights after...

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Kritischer Text von Claus Leggewie über Habermas und Ukraine: sehr lesenswert 👇🏼 textor.online/de/texte-det...

https://textor.online/ | In Erinnerung an Jürgen Habermas - Warum ich bedauere, niemals mit ihm ins Gespräch gekommen zu sein

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Alexander Kluge ist tot. Zwischen seinem ersten und letzten "Merkur"-Text lagen 53 Jahre. Man muss gewiss nicht zum "Merkur" greifen, um Texte des unfassbar produktiven (u.a.) Autors zu finden, aber man kann: Es gibt insgesamt elf (einige frei lesbar). www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/autoren/alex...

Alexander Kluge – MERKUR

Lesen Sie Artikel von Alexander Kluge in der Kulturzeitschrift MERKUR – Gegründet 1947 als Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken.

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In the Czech Republic, cultural journals are facing an unprecedented crisis as the far right takes over the Ministry of Culture. And in Slovakia, Arts Council defunding has left many cultural organizations, including journals, facing imminent closure www.eurozine.com/chronology/c...

Cultural cuts endanger journals in Czechia and Slovakia

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