Fronesis 76-77 (2022) Eurozine Review Reconsidering the authoritarian personality: Are progressives really on the right side of history? Can Reich’s theory of sexuality explain today’s far-right? And is the manosphere more than a reactionary self-help forum? From a progressive point of view, it can seem incomprehensible why someone would seek the opposite of an equal… Read More Progressives and reactionaries
Revered Russian writer and Putin critic on how the war in Ukraine has divided his nation, and why culture is the only cure Andrew Anthony Read Shishkin’s letter to an unknown Ukrainian Mikhail Shishkin was born in Moscow and is one of the most lauded writers in contemporary Russian literature, and the only one to receive… Read More Mikhail Shishkin: ‘The main enemy of Russian culture is the Russian regime’
Haroon Janjua in Islamabad The conflict between Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his predecessor Imran Khan seems to be escalating in Pakistan amid the worst economic crisis in decades. For weeks, police have been clashing with the supporters of Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, as the former cricket star fights a dozen of legal cases. Khan was ousted by a vote of… Read More Pakistan’s political crisis: Where is the country headed?
Jonathan Freedland I look at the contrasting journeys taken by Northern Ireland and by Israel in the last 25 years and conclude that one got on the right train and the other missed it – with consequences that get only more tragic. To be sure, not everything in Northern Ireland is rosy. The institutions of self-government remain… Read More Netanyahu is leading a coup against his own country. But the threat is not only to Israel
NB: While the indictment of this man is welcome, it needs to be remembered, whilst talking of ‘Western democracies’,that niether George Bush Jr nor Tony Blair have faced prosecution for invading Iraq in violation of international law, and causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians. As for justice in our part of the… Read More Trump’s indictment: he’ll fight the law. Who will win?
Sihem Bensedrine I was relieved when Hervé, a young man from Ivory Coast who occasionally helps me around the house, finally called. It had been four agonising days of radio silence. Since his landlady had evicted him, he had been wandering the streets of Raoued, a suburb of Tunis, trying to avoid the marauding gangs.… Read More A poisonous dictatorship has been built in Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab spring
Nick Dearden A few months into his presidency, Joe Biden signed an executive order to promote competition in the American economy saying: “We’re now 40 years into the experiment of letting giant corporations accumulate more and more power […] I believe the experiment failed.” While those might seem unlikely words from the once centrist champion of corporate… Read More Breaking corporate monopolies is the only way to save democracy
Jan-Werner Müller Trump sycophants like Elise Stefanik and Andy Biggs complain that the country is becoming authoritarian and like “the third world”. Never mind the underlying racism of such pronouncements – the absence of spectacle proves that they are wrong, as does that fact that countries who fare far better on global democracy rankings than the US have not… Read More What does Donald Trump’s indictment say about US democracy?
Eric Moses Gurevitch Two recent books force us to rethink what knowledge is, where it is located, and how it moves. Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science – James Poskett From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World – Pamela H. Smith According to a familiar story,… Read More How Not to Tell the History of Science
The long century of Ernst Jünger On the Marble Cliffs, by Ernst Jünger, translated from the German by Tess Lewis Ernst Jünger is the intractable land mine of German literature. Demolition squads of scholars have stencil-brushed the casing and every wire of the corpus; warning tape encircles the mother lode of fifty books, which are still… Read More History’s Fool by Thomas Meaney
