Douglas Penick on Louis-Auguste Blanqui

We are all earthworms who must dig through the ground...

Austria’s government has pointed the finger of blame firmly at the unvaccinated...

Some protections have been eroded, usually in the name of budgetary constraints...

Character assassination is the intentional destruction of a person’s reputation or credibility through strategic communication...

Culture wars present us with an unflattering mirror: whether we take part in them or not, they can easily make us seem either pathetic or buck-passing...

Encouraging black people to see themselves as perpetual victims, while assigning to white people the task of becoming enlightened enough to recognize their own inherent and irredeemable racism creates a culture of soft-bigotry...

Universities will no longer be dedicated to the creation and dissemination of knowledge but to the promotion of student comfort and the avoidance of social-media attacks...

Germany is shortly to hold its first ever federal election in which the sitting chancellor is not running...

Wokeness is not just a social philosophy, but an elite status marker, a strategy for personal advancement...

On the first of July, artists, curators, and art afficionados gathered at the gates of the Sharra landfill of Tirana to attend the inauguration of a public artwork by Kosovar artist Sislej Xhafa...

Robert Gates argued in his memoir that Biden had been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades...

It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons...

There’s a sense of deep internal contradiction running through DiAngelo’s writing that emerges from such discrepancies and which is at odds with the wealth she has accrued as an authority on anti-racism. It points towards the limitations of a worldview that, however well intentioned, pushes us deeper into the...

Moral superiority and cancel culture only further alienate the people already excluded from meritocracy and elite cultural capital...

The Democratic Party has been pulled far enough left that even lots of non-crazy people find us just plain scary...