Videos
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Lisa Anderson 22 January 2018More and more citizens feel abandoned or betrayed by their State, by the Welfare State, says Lisa Anderson. - Hamid Dabashi 5 January 2018In space as airports, borders or in refugee camps today our human dignity dissolves into a digitalized humanity where the data substitutes the individual, says Hamid Dabashi.
- Michael Sandel 19 December 2017To understand the rise of populism we need to engage and care about questions as dignity of work, uncriticized financialization of market driven economy, growing inequality, missing solidarity and the fear of immigration.
- Michael Sandel 14 December 2017“Citizens are not just consumers” says political philosopher Michael Sandel from Harvard University.
- Michael Sandel 5 December 2017Democracies need confrontation and debate in ethical and moral questions, says Michael Sandel.
- Steven Prothero 25 September 2017With Trumpism, a kind of virulent racism and sectarianism in public discourse in the name of a response to political correctness raised in the form of Islamophobia
- Moh’d Kheir Eiadat 25 September 2017Can religion be a positive rather than a destructive force? asks Mohd Eiadat, of Jordan University: “Yes, in Islam, every generation should revisit it’s faith.
- Mukul Kesavan 25 September 2017Ideally we speak of a democracy when individuals and groups are not stigmatised on account of their origins, their race, their religion.
- Farhad Khosrokhavar 25 September 2017The French based Iranian sociologist Farhad Khosrokhavar draws a map of the different types of European Islamic extremists.
- Ashis Nandy 21 September 2017Nationalism is not an old war. It came into being because monarchies were collapsing in Europe and people were afraid that in the absence of a royal dynasty mediating between the heavens and the earth no one could retain the allegiance of the people towards the State.
