1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (799+ words) In the 50th issue of Atlas: a cautionary tale about the manosphere; gentrification myths; a meditation on authority, power and cultural ownership; freedom despite war. To mark its fiftieth issue, Atlas hopes to breathe some life back into prose, celebrating vivid,…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (586+ words) When citizens are the targets of direct military action, humanity suffers alongside those under fire. First-hand insights of travelling to Ukraine's war zones are reminders of just how close Russia's ongoing war is. It's 9am on the fourth anniversary of Russia's…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (740+ words) An optimistic take on AI aesthetics; the destruction of Vilnius during the Soviet Union; the arrested development of Lithuanian urban culture; searching for a father killed in 1941. With articles ranging from the legacies of occupation and exile to contemporary art,…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (689+ words) The state is back " or perhaps it never left. The 2008 financial crisis "decisively called into question the thesis that the state is being sidelined by the market, write the editors of Fronesis (Sweden). Subsequent crises " from the pandemic to geopolitical…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (1522+ words) Winner of the prestigious Yuri Shevelov Prize for "Hemingway Knows Nothing, Ukrainian soldier and writer Artur Drons relationships with literature and religion have already been tested to the max. In an interview with cultural journal "The Ukrainians, he shares his…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (518+ words) The demonisation of mental illness; eugenics, disability and gender; age and (in)ability in socialist Bulgaria; family values and the identitarian right. With 1. 3 billion people (and counting) living with disabilities around the world, and in the context of a neoliberal…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (859+ words) Precarity inflames tensions in Kenya. Youth-led demonstrations from 2024 and 2025 rallied against government corruption, hiked living costs and police brutality. With more than two thirds under 30, commentators portray young Africans as either a threat or neoliberal dividend. But people-centred, environmental aspirations…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (355+ words) Since 2020s "revolution with a female face, Lukashenka has ramped up his neo-Soviet family policy while continuing to persecute women disobedient to his regime. Women, especially mothers with young children and former political prisoners, belong to the most vulnerable social groups....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1430+ words) Despite a transatlantic exchange of far-right ideology, material interests are what bind the international of nationalists. And despite transatlantic patterns in far-right strategy, talk of a rightwing populist tide misses the point, argues Jan-Werner M'ller in interview with Vikerkaar magazine....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (641+ words) Why the rules-based order was never pure fiction; what Europe must do to remain non-aligned; lessons from Greenland; Jan-Werner M'ller on Trump. In Estonia, a small country with a long history of being a pawn in the geopolitical games of…...