Thanks to a new wave of small intellectual magazines, an infectious buzz has returned to public debate in the United States. Roman Schmidt talks to David Marcus who, as a new editor at Dissent, is well placed to provide the lowdown what’s driving this genuinely critical movement.
Gumbrecht: “We have to rethink political organization”
Michał Sutowski speaks with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht – philosopher and literary theorist, Professor at Stanford University
Ulrich Beck – a memorial from a student to a teacher
Together with the beginning of the new year, the world received news of the death of Ulrich Beck, one of its most valued sociologists. The terms he introduced into the scholarly lexicon serve as a symbolic testament to this achievement.
Palley: at this stage we’re talking doctrine
There is something wrong with the economic structure. And that something is income distribution – says Professor Palley.
We need change now!
The human rights activist Napuli Paul Langa about the Refugee Movment in Berlin
Topple The European Wall
Berlin: Celebrations of The Fall of The Berlin Wall Are In Progress. Bulgarian‒Turkish Border: A Hundred of Activists Are Trying To Topple The European Wall.
By Dawid Krawczyk. Translated by Konrad Zwoliński.
At the UN, New Voices Call for an End to the Drug War
In the most recent session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs—the lead policymaking body for drug control at the UN—governments …