Politics & Society Can Biden bring America back? After four image-damaging years, one of U.S. President Joe Biden’s top goals is to restore American respectability and leadership abroad. Can he succeed?
Politics & Society White Rage and the Demise of Democracy In the past few years, underprivileged groups have felt ‘left behind’ and voted for demagogues, who have often gone on to undermine democracy. However, this is nothing new. Reading classics by writers as diverse as Dostoevsky, Plato and Rousseau can provide an answer to the current malaise.
Arts & Humanities Right-Wing Rhetoric and the Trivialization of Pandemic Casualties In the US, influential commentators and officials pushed the public to accept death and illness as a new normal during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Politics & Society Why Trump Really Wants to Ban TikTok The battle between America and China being carried out through TikTok embodies a new form of modern warfare in which there is no threat of bombs, no threat of troops, but threats of taking away teenagers’ dancing videos.