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My testament | Eurozine

[ad_1] Growing up as a naive schoolboy in the 1990s, I was surrounded by the Belarusian language and Belarusian culture. My generation had been saturated

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On starlings and the thermodynamics of life

[ad_1] A murmuration of tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of starlings, flying in such perfect synchrony that they look like a single, billowing,

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Borrowing from Erdoğan’s playbook | Eurozine

[ad_1] On 5 February 2025, two weeks after Donald Trump assumed the role of US president, Argonotlar (“Argonauts”), a queer art publication in Turkey, issued

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The unstoppable solipsist | Eurozine

[ad_1] It is safe to predict that the second Trump presidency will go down in American history as the most divisive ever. Everything to say

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Eternal twilight of the Ulster kind

[ad_1] In 1975, the American sociologist Michael Hechter published a book on the evolution of the United Kingdom; fifty years on, its insights are strikingly

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Religion and Secularism | Eurozine

[ad_1] Let’s start with the basics: What is secularism? Well, according to the Enycolpedia Britannica, even scholars have a hard time defining it to the

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The president who preached revolution

[ad_1] … ever since 1789, there has been one magic word which contains within itself all imaginable futures, and is never so full of hope

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Are we better prepared for the next epidemic?

[ad_1] Five years after the COVID-19 swept the world off its feet and many are, understandably, reluctant to discuss it. Yet, the fallout stays with

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Funding cuts on the rise

[ad_1] Money likes to go where money already resides. This truism is valid in the cultural sector as well, which has seen a lot of

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Lula 3.0 and the austerity trap

[ad_1] Campaigning for his third term as president in 2022, Lula da Silva ran on a straightforward message: making Brazil “happy again”. Now, halfway through