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The Women’s Movement in Iran One Year after the Death of Mahsa Amini

A fragile triumph

September 12, 2023 • by Kian Tajbakhsh

As we approach the anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in September 2022, what can we expect for the future of Iranian women’s civil rights?...

The Women’s Movement in Iran One Year after the Death of Mahsa Amini

Activism

To Build a Black Future

In this excerpt, an introduction to the new Black politics of joy, pain, and care

September 11, 2023 • by Christopher Paul Harris

One of the critical features of the contemporary moment in Black movement, the time of #BlackLivesMatter, is how capacious the definitions of Blackness and, with it, Black radicalism have become....

Politics

Yevgeny Prigozhin: Act III, Scene II

A criminal turned caterer turned patriot

September 11, 2023 • by Peter Nohrnberg

I come to bury Prigozhin, not to praise him, nor dwell upon his three medals “For Merit to the Fatherland” awarded by the Kremlin....

Europe & Central Asia

“Deep political changes are only a matter of time”

Correspondence with Vladimir Kara-Murza

June 26, 2023 • by Anastasia Shteinert, Vladimir Kara-Murza and Alex Strelnikov

Just before his sentencing, journalists Anastasia Shteinert and Alex Strelnikov sent questions to Kara-Murza through the Russian prison postal system...

“Deep political changes are only a matter of time”

Democracy

The 2023 Turkish Elections—A Roller Coaster Ride between Hope and Despair

The opponents of Erdogan feel “ghosted” by their leaders

June 14, 2023 • by Selin Bengi Gümrükçü

About a week after the runoff of the Turkish presidential elections in 2023, I had a vivid dream. In this dream, the elections extended to a third round, scheduled for a few weeks later, and the dates for diaspora voting were yet to be released. As a diaspora voter myself, ...

The 2023 Turkish Elections—A Roller Coaster Ride between Hope and Despair

Europe & Central Asia

“The Symbolic Equivalent of a Pogrom” in Poland

The attack on historian Jan Grabowski broke the psychological barrier limiting public anti-Semitic actions

June 13, 2023 • by Irena Grudzińska-Gross

Since there are no longer any groupings of recognizable Jews in Poland, the assault on Jan Grabowski is the symbolic equivalent of a pogrom. The otherwise inexplicable destruction of property forms part of the pogrom repertoire. ...

“The Symbolic Equivalent of a Pogrom” in Poland

Activism

Can a Walking Tour Rescue a Lost History?

As the pandemic hit and anti-Asian violence surged, Anna Huang and Chloe Chan started Mott Street Girls, a walking tour company, to make Chinese American history more accessible to the public

June 12, 2023 • by Mette Kierstein

In the future, Mott Street Girls hope to have visited every Chinatown in the country. But hearing people’s feedback is what keeps them going. They believe that history can be a form of social activism....

Can a Walking Tour Rescue a Lost History?

Activism

The Pro-Nazi Artist Behind the Brooklyn Public Library’s Facade

German-American sculptor Carl Paul Jennewein, who designed the library’s iconic entrance reliefs, participated in Nazi exhibitions and espoused white supremacist beliefs

June 6, 2023 • by Daniel Fernandez

Brooklyn Public Library’s entrance artwork propagates a colonialist, white supremacist vision that is inseparable from Nazism....

The Pro-Nazi Artist Behind the Brooklyn Public Library’s Facade

Democracy

How Democracies Transform, Fast and Slow

A response to John Keane

June 5, 2023 • by Ferenc Laczó

For all its acuity, John Keane’s theory of democide risks confusing democratic degradation with a transformation of the political debate. Not only that, it fails to account for the radicalization of authoritarian systems once democracy has been killed. ...

How Democracies Transform, Fast and Slow

Toward a Postliberal Future?

Patrick J. Deneen’s Regime Change and the Meletus option

May 16, 2023 • by Geoffrey Kurtz

Deneen invokes Machiavelli, but at a deeper level his model is Meletus: the whole class of “ordinary people,” all of them, have the right political instincts, and only the liberal “ruling elite,” like the deplorable Socrates, is corrupting the American polity....

Europe & Central Asia

The Voice of Ukraine

“Break your heavy chains and water with the tyrants’ blood the freedom you have gained”

May 10, 2023 • by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed

For many in Ukraine, the war is not simply about the territory: it is about freedom and democracy, about the memory of identity eradication perpetrated by Russia....

The Kremlin’s Nationalist Utopia

Russo-Ukrainian “unity” plays an inordinately huge role in Putin’s historical imagination

May 9, 2023 • by Igor Torbakov

"Losing" Ukraine to an external enemy or to a domestic secessionist movement would be tantamount to the dismemberment of the national body....

Politics

The Women’s Movement in Iran One Year after the Death of Mahsa Amini

A fragile triumph

To Build a Black Future

In this excerpt, an introduction to the new Black politics of joy, pain, and care

Yevgeny Prigozhin: Act III, Scene II

A criminal turned caterer turned patriot

“Deep political changes are only a matter of time”

Correspondence with Vladimir Kara-Murza

The 2023 Turkish Elections—A Roller Coaster Ride between Hope and Despair

The opponents of Erdogan feel “ghosted” by their leaders

“The Symbolic Equivalent of a Pogrom” in Poland

The attack on historian Jan Grabowski broke the psychological barrier limiting public anti-Semitic actions

Can a Walking Tour Rescue a Lost History?

As the pandemic hit and anti-Asian violence surged, Anna Huang and Chloe Chan started Mott Street Girls, a walking tour company, to make Chinese American history more accessible to the public

The Pro-Nazi Artist Behind the Brooklyn Public Library’s Facade

German-American sculptor Carl Paul Jennewein, who designed the library’s iconic entrance reliefs, participated in Nazi exhibitions and espoused white supremacist beliefs

How Democracies Transform, Fast and Slow

A response to John Keane

Toward a Postliberal Future?

Patrick J. Deneen’s Regime Change and the Meletus option

The Voice of Ukraine

“Break your heavy chains and water with the tyrants’ blood the freedom you have gained”

The Kremlin’s Nationalist Utopia

Russo-Ukrainian “unity” plays an inordinately huge role in Putin’s historical imagination

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