debating progressive politics in Europe and beyond
Yet again historians, sociologists, cultural studies academics, and political scientists betray their academic duty. Previously they’ve shied away, in numbers far too big for comfort, from the problems of immigration, integration and Islam. They became traitors to their own expert knowledge on human society by failing to, in a timely and loud fashion, single out [...]
A couple of years ago I wrote a report on the Polish elections of 2005. With characters and parties such as the (since then fortunately marginalised) extremist political loony Andrzej Lepper, the racist and homophobic League of Polish Families, and the populist Kaczynski twins taking over government, I mused in a private message how such [...]
We need a realistic utopia – a good place that can really exist. Since the times of Plato there has been an abundance of grand visions for a perfect social future; however, developments in reality have always proved to be far more modest than what was envisaged in the philosophical musings or political strivings in [...]
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