“Freedom-loving Brits” Taking Back Control: Post-truth in the COVID Era |...
‘Post-truth’ has become a buzzword in the recent years but it has also created ambiguity pertaining to the term ‘post’. The association of ‘post’...
The first step is admitting that you’re a worker –...
Modelling might seem like atypical work, a vocation that doesn’t have a lot in common with more regular jobs. That is the prevalent image...
Expectedly unprecedented: Media discourses on COVID-19 and gender violence in Mexico
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented changes to our lifestyles. Or is it, maybe, that the pandemic has simply underscored our already lived normality,...
Is Marxism coming back? The resurgence of the Left in Europe...
In this weekend’s long-read article, Grigoris Markou surveys the re-emergence of Marxist and Communist ideas in contemporary political discourse. Tracing the relationship between Marxism and...
Amok Runners: Crisis of Patriarchy and Gender Violence in Turkey |...
In this long read and original essay for the New Pretender, Alev Özkazanç writes about the prevalence of gender based violence against women and members...
Black Lives Matter, Covid-19 and the Scene of Politics | Hasret...
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will” – Frederick Douglass
“I feel that if we don’t take seriously the ways...
France’s Security Laws Should be a Wake-Up Call to Leftwing Nationalists...
If you are reading this, chances are you have heard about the French security laws that were proposed last Fall and are scheduled for...
Our Finest Hour – A very British response to crisis |...
The coronavirus has quite predictably, though understandably, invaded all forms of media which we consume. Every newspaper is dominated by updates on the battle...
Bright Flight
Per Rolandsson discusses why Scandinavian culture has become so popular among the liberal middle-classes. Is it fascism, racism, or escapism?
Escaping the reality of today’s...
In Mexico City a woman wrote on the torn side of...
In Mexico City a woman wrote on the torn side of a cardboard box: “They took so much from us that they also took...