Labour needs to take a step back and remember what it has in Starmer, right? Wrong 👇🏼

The Czech leader Andrej Babiš appears unwilling to succeed Orbán as figurehead of European illiberalism. But whoever emerges to fill the gap, Orbánism remains a political force, writes @apolenarychlikova.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/orbanism-aft...

From Élisée Reclus and Peter Kropotkin to Rachel Carson, Murray Bookchin and André Gorz: the anarchist tradition understands ecology not as top-down conservation, but as practice of cohabitation. Simon Guyomard and Édouard Jourdain via Esprit @cairninfo.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/ecology-to-a...

For the philosopher Harry Frankfurt, the essence of bullshit was not the intention to deceive but indifference to how things really are. But does that make bullshit worse than lies? Are we not all, sometimes, bullshitters? By Quassim Cassam via Dublin Review of Books www.eurozine.com/when-is-bull...

A fascinating and appalling insight into the gaping void at the centre of British government and a Labour party that squandered everything. Superb writing (again) by @patrickmaguire.bsky.social and Gabriel Pogrund.

Beyond Beck’s risk society; manufacturing uncertainty; leftist survivalism; Dufourmantelle vs. Anders; love, risk and polyamory. Review of Wespennest 190 (2026) www.eurozine.com/risk/

Since 2020’s ‘revolution with a female face’, Lukashenka has ramped up his neo-Soviet family policy while continuing to persecute women disobedient to his regime. By Tatsiana Astrouskaya via @neweasterneurope.eu www.eurozine.com/populism-and...

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 @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/a-transatlan...

Why the rules-based order was never pure fiction; what Europe must do to remain non-aligned; lessons from Greenland; Jan-Werner Müller on Trump. Review of Vikerkaar 5/2026 www.eurozine.com/how-small-st...

The vilification of Orbán in Europe became politically counter-productive in Hungary itself. Péter Magyar’s success is founded on a realistic appraisal of the concerns of Hungarian society instead of a moralistic politics of blame, writes Ferenc Laczó www.eurozine.com/the-meaning-...

Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz was defeated by a grassroots movement in an extraordinary act of popular mobilization. The attempt to restart democracy in Hungary stands a better chance of success than at any time since 1989. But caveats apply, writes Stefano Bottoni www.eurozine.com/hungarys-res...

Habermas’s insistence on negotiation with the Putin regime stemmed from a failure to comprehend the eastern European experience of totalitarianism. By Claus Leggewie and Daniel Cohn-Bendit www.eurozine.com/western-alig...

Hungary: Orban loses historic election The new Private Eye is out now.

Habermas understood that the possibility for German–Jewish dialogue after the Holocaust depends on commitment to universal law. But when the past demands silence about the present, that possibility is denied, writes Omri Boehm www.eurozine.com/dialogue-and...

Hungary’s elections will be decisive for the future of the anti-EU pressure group MCC Brussels. How would an Orbán defeat impact on the illiberal international? By @martinbright.bsky.social via @indexoncensorship.org www.eurozine.com/hungary-lead...

Stigmatized during socialism, LGTBQI+ people in Slovakia continued to face political and social adversity in the following decades. Two veteran activists reflect on the campaign for equal rights after ’89 and why it remains as necessary as ever. Via Kapitál www.eurozine.com/another-nove...

Kritischer Text von Claus Leggewie über Habermas und Ukraine: sehr lesenswert 👇🏼 textor.online/de/texte-det...

Alexander Kluge ist tot. Zwischen seinem ersten und letzten "Merkur"-Text lagen 53 Jahre. Man muss gewiss nicht zum "Merkur" greifen, um Texte des unfassbar produktiven (u.a.) Autors zu finden, aber man kann: Es gibt insgesamt elf (einige frei lesbar). www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/autoren/alex...

In the Czech Republic, cultural journals are facing an unprecedented crisis as the far right takes over the Ministry of Culture. And in Slovakia, Arts Council defunding has left many cultural organizations, including journals, facing imminent closure www.eurozine.com/chronology/c...

Iran’s regional influence, already much weakened before the current war, has been dealt a fatal blow. While the country’s political future is uncertain, Israel has moved closer to becoming the centre of gravity in the Middle East. By Hamit Bozarslan via Esprit www.eurozine.com/iran-and-the...

Ist die SPÖ nun eine ordoliberale Partei? Hat Andi die Freiburger Ökonomen entdeckt? 🤔

This comment corresponds to my impression as longtime editor of @eurozine.bsky.social, a European network of journals that includes many eastern and central eastern European members 👇🏼 'Jürgen Habermas hatte sich selbst ins Abseits geführt, ein Abseits, das in Deutschland Mainstream bedeutet.'

Change the directors, cut the funding, rewrite the narrative: from Washington to Warsaw, mnemonic warriors are deploying the same techniques to weaponize history. How museums have become key arenas in the culture wars. By Oana Filip via Scena9 www.eurozine.com/a-populists-...

Quackery with a university logo: the failed attempt to introduce pseudoscience onto the curriculum of Georgia’s flagship technical university was a bizarre episode in a wider cultural war, writes Georgi Lomsadze @voxeurop.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/tech-or-tarot/

I once had the honour of him politely but peremptorily rejecting an admittedly intrusive edit I had unwisely carried out on a translation of one of his articles.

Necessary reading 👇🏼 @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @abuaardvark.bsky.social

Recent statements by the presidents of FIFA, UEFA and the IOC indicate that the resolve to exclude Russia from international sport is crumbling. The justifications for this change of heart are disingenuous, writes Mykola Riabchuk: www.eurozine.com/sportwashing...

Lev Gudkov on the roots of fear in Russian society; translation as survival strategy in Soviet Kyiv; why the EU needs to get real on Belarus; what the Armenia–Iran relationship means for the South Caucasus @osteuropa.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/phenomena-of...

Latest Graun toon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Was there something inherent to Milan Kundera’s concept of Central Europe that explains the logic of contemporary Polish, Hungarian, Czech and Slovak nationalism? By Przemysław Czapliński via Czas Kultury and @osteuropa.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/from-arch-eu...

Looking at what we have learned not to see: on the secrets of communist infrastructure; museums and mnemonic warriors; folklore and the spirit of community. Review of Scena9 www.eurozine.com/hic-sunt-leo...

A discussion with the historian Nancy L. Green on the historiography of migration from structuralism to intersectionality. Via L'Homme: European Review of Feminist History 2/2025 www.eurozine.com/challenging-...

Hermann Broch, Naguib Mahfouz, Manès Sperber: A trinity of trilogies

Fascinating, great interview! @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/a-pure...

Despite a semblance of calm, Maduro’s removal has unsettled the Venezuelan regime. Will Chavismo’s tried and tested combination of coercion and expectation management continue to delay the long-awaited rupture? By Pedro Garmendia via @letraslibres.com www.eurozine.com/venezuelas-s...

Against a backdrop of crime, corruption, inequality and sexual violence, Mexican novelists are returning to the tradition of the child narrator as way to pose questions about love, justice and human dignity. Via @ord-och-bild.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/mexicos-inne...

After years of hesitation, the series of atrocities committed by the Bosnian-Serb forces in 1995 prompted the West to finally intervene directly. NATO’s entry into the Bosnian War set in motion a fundamentally new development, writes Tihomir Loza via Transitions: www.eurozine.com/new-bosnia-p...

While lasting peace between the Turkish state and the Kurds now seems a genuine possibility, Ankara’s assault on Turkish democracy continues. Sırrı Süreyya Önder, the longtime dissident who died last year, remains a symbol of hope, writes @kayagenc.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/peace-be-the...

Contemporary Moldovan novelists continue to thematize the struggle for self-definition within a system designed to erase linguistic and ethnic identity. Taken together, their works form a literature of post-Soviet recovery. By Oxana Gherman via @neweasterneurope.eu www.eurozine.com/recovering-m...

The mid-21st century began in Caracas.

Crises tend to correlate with intense literary activity, but not necessarily with intellectual perspicacity. Our picks of 2025 have clearsightedness in abundance – as do all the articles Eurozine has had the privilege to publish in the past year. www.eurozine.com/our-picks-of...

The Dayton Agreement appeared as the triumph of the liberal post–Cold War order, but had been preceded by three years of political deadlock, with western policy driven primarily by media coverage of the atrocities in Bosnia. By Tihomir Loza via Transitions www.eurozine.com/the-war-that...

All human drama is encounter, and all human communication is translation. @sjgarnett.bsky.social @iwm.at

We live in a world where the borders between one language and another, between reality and non-reality, between the human and the non-human, are all being denied. Translation can be an antidote to this nihilism of borderlessness, writes @marcishore.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/encounters-i...

A]lthough Trump’s re-election could by no means be ruled out when the Ukraine war began, Western governments failed to grasp after Russia’s invasion that this conflict ... had to be concluded within Joe Biden’s term of office.' Disqualifies an otherwise good argument k-larevue.com/en/from-here...

A combination of geopolitics and economic pressure is weakening the political will behind the European Green Deal, the EPP leading the deregulatory offensive. Forests risk becoming collateral victims of a political U-turn. Kelsey Perlman via @revueprojet.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/europes-fore...

🔴 Journalist Fatih Altaylı given jail term, kept in prison ➡️ The court has sentenced Altaylı to 4 years and 2 months in prison and ruled that he should remain in custody on the grounds of “risk of flight” ✍️ Eylem Sonbahar www.expressioninterrupted.com/journalist-f...

The sharp drop in support for Ukraine in Italy has less to do with the traditionally Russia-friendly policy of the Italian right, and more with the anti-US sentiment rooted in the culture of the Italian left. By @tilmanalioscia.bsky.social via @neweasterneurope.eu www.eurozine.com/italy-and-ru...

The Authoritarian Stack: how tech billionaires are building a post-democratic America and why Europe is next. My new project is an interactive investigation and open data platform to expose tech authoritarianism and mobilize collective power for democratic alternatives. www.authoritarian-stack.info

A stunning conclusion to a stunning book @haymarketbooks.org www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2499-p...