Rachel Tausendfreund talks to Taiwan’s digital minister, Audrey Tang, about the perils and prospects of tech for democracy. Audrey discusses strategies to combat the infodemic (including “humor over rumor” and public notice) and explains the advantages of Taiwan’s public social media platform PTT, which gave the government early warning for the coronavirus.
Does NATO have a Black Sea strategy? What are the possible military and political scenarios in the Black Sea region? Can the West do anything at all to secure food exports to the Middle East and North Africa on which millions are dependent? Follow this discussion with Hudson Institute experts.
Nature was once the most prestigious academic journal in the world. Yet in the last few years, it’s been allocating more and more editorial space to woke activism. The latest example comes in the form of an article titled “The sting of sizeism in the scientific workplace”.
L’accumulation récente d’événements politiques en Israël suscite l’inquiétude. Depuis l’accession au pouvoir de Benyamin Netanyahou, le centre de gravité politique du pays s’est progressivement déplacé vers la droite. Au point que c’est le caractère démocratique de l’État qui est aujourd’hui en péril.
Лев Маркович Шлосберг, руски политик (Яблоко), говори за трагедията, в която Путиновият режим хвърли народа на Русия. Много смел, проникновен, човечен анализ на войната в Украйна и руското общесво. Чуйте тук един от най-добрите гласове на другата Русия.
Momentous occasions such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine often have the effect of reinforcing in commentators and policy analysts the convictions and prescriptions they had previously espoused. In other words, “I favor policy X, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine only reinforces the urgency of adopting policy X.”
Greg Lukianoff – president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) – discusses with host Brendon O’Neill why progressives have turned against freedom, why the First Amendment is both a blessing and a curse, and why free-speech advocates need to stop apologising all the time. Listen to podcast here:
On a cold, clear weekend in January, tens of thousands of anti-abortion activists convened in Washington for their annual gathering, the March for Life. The mood was triumphant. In the next few months, the U.S. Supreme Court is widely expected to pare back or overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that established the constitutional right to abortion.
Ilya Kaminsky is a hard-of-hearing, USSR-born, Ukrainian-Russian-Jewish-American poet, critic, translator and professor. From his base abroad, he gets in touch with writers living in Odesa to find out how it feels to be there during the first weeks following the Russian invasion, and what they have to say at this time about writing.
In Radu Jude’s ‘Bad Luck Banging, or Loony Porn,’ Bucharest is half built and half derelict—a semiotic jungle and a ruin waiting to happen.
