… ok, “week” as in “last 12 weeks”… and as you can see a rather short and subjective list…
Neil MacFarlane
We may be living post-historically. Russia is not.
Russia Today
Opposition candidates will get the right to lose elections.
Mark Danner
If Everybody Knew, Who’s To Blame?
Timothy Garton Ash
Europe is nice, boring and irrelevant. In many ways this is a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘ideology’
Quotes of the Week (VII)
Slavoj Žižek: Every state needs its own Balkan
“Every state needs its own Balkan”
With this words philosopher Slavoj Žižek started his lecture on ideology and the fall of state borders. The lecture was given in Italian Gorizia which was until 2007 a border town with Slovenia and is a well known habitat of Italians and Slovenes. From this point of [...]
Tower of Babel
Every now and then a little language war breaks out in the EU institutions. Spain lobbies for Spanish to become one of the official working languages (at the moment: English, French and German) because it is one of most spoken languages worldwide. Germany (sometimes together with Austria) claims that German became more popular after the [...]
Why not a referendum? Look at the polls!
OK, I know this is not very ‘democratic’ but I am happy that someone opened up the debate on the limits of participatory democracy. Lately, the idea of holding a referendum is often presented as THE one and only democratic instrument that we have (especially by Madame Royal). Strangely enough, only relating to EU issues, [...]
Russia: a ’soft power’ running out of gas?
Recent news from Russia are not positive at all. Somehow it feels as if Russia is marching back to Soviet times. The list is long and truly worrying:
Economically, the country is run by a handful of oligarchs. Energy is used as a political weapon with a little help of the dubious state controlled Gazprom. Putin [...]
