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Drawing new lines

In November 2017, after a lengthy meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping, Donald Trump boasted that he and Xi can solve “probably all” the...

16.02.2025 10

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Right on a roll

Lea Ypi, professor of political theory at the London School of Economics, believes a new “European militarism” has not only empowered the radical...

06.01.2025 8

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Power of No

Uncivilisation: The Dark Mountain Manifesto is Planet Earth’s cri de coeur against grotesque inequality and vandalization of nature. It was written...

28.12.2024 7

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Tyranny of broligarchs

In his much-celebrated book, The Third Wave, futurist Alvin Toffler describes technology as “the dawn of a new civilisation”. Technology has made...

01.12.2024 10

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Europe in decline?

The Nobel Prize winning Columbia University economist Edward Phelps maintains that innovation is the key to economic growth, prosperity and human...

12.11.2024 8

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Burning bright

Hungarian anthropologist Karl Polanyi says that there are certain critical periods of history when time expands. In recent years, time has expanded...

05.11.2024 4

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Consensus of wrongdoing

American political commentator Thomas Friedman says that the world has entered a phase of ‘post-post-Cold War.’ This phase is witnessing a contest...

25.10.2024 2

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Invent the metaphor

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the world is facing a “pivotal moment” and business as usual could lead to a “breakdown of...

28.09.2024 3

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Pedagogy of unwellness

The Duke of Cumberland and uncle of Queen Victoria fiercely opposed the expansion of the Great Western Railways on the strange ground that its...

11.09.2024 4

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Building BRICS

Way back in 2012, Zbigniew Brezezzinski wrote about “the receding West” in his book Strategic Vision and argued that “the long-lasting political...

24.08.2024 5

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Carnival of power

Think Brazil, think carnival. The Rio carnival is widely believed to be the biggest party on our planet. Brazilian carnivals are the most popular...

14.08.2024 10

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Dystopian Nightmares

The American Dream is believed to be the national ethos of the United States. Of course, not all Americans agree. Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of...

29.07.2024 2

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Growing clout

The Americans are “a very lucky people. They’re bordered to the north and south by weak neighbours, and to the east and west by fish.” Bismarck had...

19.07.2024 2

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