By Jeet Heer* – The Nation A classic horror movie reveals how authoritarianism and scapegoating flourish during a plague None of us are going to the movie theater anytime soon. Fortunately, there are convenient substitutes for cinema addicts, perhaps most… Continue Reading
By Jan Lundius* Epidemic diseases are not random events that afflict societies capriciously and without warning, on the contrary, every society produces its own specific vulnerabilities. To study them is to understand the importance of a society’s structure, its standard… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Jan 17 2020 (IPS) – The United States and 18 other UN member states have come under fire for denying a woman’s legitimate right to “bodily autonomy”—the right to self-governance over one’s own body without… Continue Reading
By Davina Jackson * – The Conversation Al Gore’s 1992 forecast of a Digital Earth — where satellites beam data to reveal all the planet’s environmental dynamics – has gained momentum with the publication of the Manual of Digital Earth… Continue Reading
Editorial The backlash over Hungary’s new theatre legislation is not just political drama. It is a democratic and artistic crisis In a speech last year, the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán gave his definition of what some late 20th-century Marxists… Continue Reading
