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Putin and Patriarch Kirill’s Promise of Universal Liberation

Why some young men in America are converting to Orthodox Christianity

April 10, 2024 • by Katherine Kelaidis

Vladimir Putin is on track to be the longest reigning Russian leader since Catherine the Great. The two resilient despots have more in common than one might imagine. ...

Putin and Patriarch Kirill’s Promise of Universal Liberation

Podcast

Who Do You Love?

Episode 50: A conversation with Neil J. Young about Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right

March 28, 2024 • by Claire Potter

Battling detractors on their left and homophobia to their right, gay Republicans have nevertheless played power politics for over 80 years....

Europe & Central Asia

War and Peace in Jonathan Glazer’s Zone of Interest

How the banality of everyday life keeps us fenced off from evil

March 25, 2024 • by Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus

In a way, our memory culture both in Germany and in Israel is an exact reversal of the reality revealed by the film. Perhaps that's why the film seems to annoy many people in Germany, who complain that it shows the "perpetrator's perspective." But memory must also be a memory ...

War and Peace in Jonathan Glazer’s <em>Zone of Interest</em>

Body & Mind

Driven Mad by a Marxist Daughter

Two billionaire fathers undergo a peculiar, public psychosis

March 25, 2024 • by Justin Joque

What defines Musk and Ackman’s psychosis is no longer their relation to their symbolic fathers, but their relation to that of their daughters’....

Podcast

The Bright Sunshine of Human Rights

A conversation with journalist and historian James Traub about liberalism and his book True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest for a More Just America

March 12, 2024 • by Claire Potter

An interview with James Traub on his new book, True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest for a More Just America....

Climate & Ecology

Animal Sovereignties and the Wolves of Isle Royale

An excerpt from Interspecies Politics

March 12, 2024 • by Rafi Youatt

The biggest challenge posed by the question of wild animal sovereignties is to the operation of human sovereignty, which itself is figured through animality and in some cases through animals....

Animal Sovereignties and the Wolves of Isle Royale

Democracy

The Man Who Was Too Strong

Alexei Navalny will forever remain a symbol of hope for change in Russia

February 20, 2024 • by Anastasia Shteinert

One of the first rallies I covered as a journalist was the "voters' strike" in January 2018 in Saint Petersburg. Navalny declared the strike when he was barred from participating in the presidential elections due to his criminal record. Navalny's work and his courage often inspired me to continue my ...

Colonization

The US Should Only Support a Multiethnic, Nonsectarian Israel

If Israel chooses to continue its current course, it should do it alone, without our funding

February 13, 2024 • by Stephen Zacks

Whether or not it sways Netanyahu, we should certainly withhold military funding now and make our support contingent on clearly stated humanitarian objectives and an ultimate governing framework that conforms to our ideas of justice....

The US Should Only Support a Multiethnic, Nonsectarian Israel

History

Democracy’s Endgame?

A plea for sustaining the infrastructure of hope

January 31, 2024 • by Elzbieta Matynia

Though surrounded by these largely man-made fires, we’ve at least been trying to put them out. It would be so much easier, though, to fight these fires if they were not fueled by massive efforts to dismantle the democratic order....

Climate & Ecology

Ethologies of Animal Politics

Do animals have political cultures?

January 29, 2024 • by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka

Consider the growing ethological evidence of how animal communities themselves do face-to-face politics....

Middle East & North Africa

Losing a Country, Losing a Father

An excerpt from We Could Have Been Friends My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

January 22, 2024 • by Raja Shehadeh

My father never showed me this booklet. Nonetheless, it was the precursor to similar ones that I would write years later with the same objective, except that in my case it was to help the world better understand the nature of the Israeli occupation of the rest of Palestine....