Culture and Ideas
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The Ken-ification of Hungarian Politics
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What does Orbán’s defeat reveal about the limits of performative masculinity in populist politics?
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Relational and Atomised: Rethinking the Chinese Issue of Meritocracy and Solidarity
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When academic worth is measured by scores and rankings, creativity gives way to calculation.
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What’s Tomorrow Worth?
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Through forestry, finance, and Chilean mining law, ‘Discounting the Future’ uncovers the far-reaching political consequences of valuing tomorrow through economics.
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Repackaging Faith: Analysing the Tradwife Revival
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Can the tradwife movement be understood as faith, feminism’s backlash, or a symptom of modernity itself?
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The Authoritarian Apologia Industry: How Democratic Fatigue Fuels Dangerous Revisionism
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Is democracy being scrutinized—or slowly abandoned?
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When AI Becomes the Absolute: How Our Beliefs Turn Technology into Religion
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Is AI replacing religion, or is it simply revealing how deeply human beings need something to believe in?
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‘Lawful But Awful’: Humanising the Digital State
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Today, the failure of our digital institutions is driving us backwards. When the public sphere is governed by an opaque and arbitrary algorithm, trust collapses.
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The Politics of Technological Pessimism
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Ashcroft’s book reminds us that technology is never just a tool, but a political force capable of shaping the future as much as threatening it.
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Vibing over Communicating: Memeified Extremism in the Digital Age
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When memes replace manifestos, how does extremism communicate?
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AI is Replacing Therapists. Are Priests Next?
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Can a machine offer moral guidance? The rise of AI suggests that society may soon test whether spiritual authority can be simulated.