CULTURE
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On starlings and the thermodynamics of life
A murmuration of tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of starlings, flying in such perfect synchrony that they look…
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The unstoppable solipsist | Eurozine
It is safe to predict that the second Trump presidency will go down in American history as the most divisive…
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Borrowing from Erdoğan’s playbook | Eurozine
On 5 February 2025, two weeks after Donald Trump assumed the role of US president, Argonotlar (“Argonauts”), a queer art…
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Eternal twilight of the Ulster kind
In 1975, the American sociologist Michael Hechter published a book on the evolution of the United Kingdom; fifty years on,…
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Religion and Secularism | Eurozine
Let’s start with the basics: What is secularism? Well, according to the Enycolpedia Britannica, even scholars have a hard time…
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The president who preached revolution
… ever since 1789, there has been one magic word which contains within itself all imaginable futures, and is never…
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Lula 3.0 and the austerity trap
Campaigning for his third term as president in 2022, Lula da Silva ran on a straightforward message: making Brazil “happy…
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‘A’ at the end of the alphabet
Should sexual relationships, with all their complications, really be a benchmark of societal acceptance? Vox Feminae investigates the history of…
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Russia’s dreams of re-Union | Eurozine
For three decades after the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, political science and practical politics in Western Europe and North…
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Writing on the wall, writing on the water
Cofiwch Dryweryn (remember Tryweryn). The walls exhort us in bright red and white, from Llanrhystud in West Wales to Chicago.…
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