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For much of my twenties, my idea of community was shaped by the political currents of the time.
Identity politics, first articulated in the 1970s and ascendant in the last decade, taught us to attune ourselves to structures of inequality and privilege — class, race, gender, sexuality, education and geography.
The language of safe space
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After the Trump administration’s actions against oil tankers in international waters, there is a strong possibility that the global shadow fleet may not just be at a tipping point, but may well be on track to be seriously degraded.
To the general public, the actions taken to counter those fleets may still look like incremental enforcement. Even so, their operating lay...
Forget any further displays of European concern about Venezuela. Now that the Trump administration has once again threatened to seize Greenland, it is high time for the Europeans to wake up.
Europe is defended by Ukraine
First and foremost, all Europeans must understand that, at least as long as the Trump administration is in office, their mos...
It is a fundamental question. Did we go very wrong somewhere and thus ended up in today’s bad situation?
To many young people, it might seem a strange question to ask. To them, the world of the 1990s is a faraway world of which, by experience, they know almost nothing. But they are familiar with the key terms of the period — such as the Global Financial Crisis, libera...
Donald Trump’s extraction of Venezuela’s authoritarian caudillo Nicolas Maduro may be the first step toward parceling out the world among global superpowers — the United States, China and Russia.
If so, it wou...
