Civilization
Phil Hammond – Culture Wars and Wars for Values
Values-driven’ foreign policy is simultaneously a domestic culture war. On both fronts, Western values-talk is past its sell-by date.
Phil Hammond is Emeritus Professor for...
UN Warns of ‘Total Societal Collapse’ Due to Breaching of Planetary...
By Nafeez Ahmed
26 May 2022
When the United Nations published its 2022 ‘Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction’ (GAR2022) in May, the world’s attention...
Inside The Military-Entertainment Complex
By David Sirota
Jun 9, 2022
The military quietly infiltrating a movie studio… the idea might seem like a fantastical plot from a film, but Top...
The War between East and West, the Non-Aligned and the Struggle...
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos (*)
Second of two parts. Here you can read the first part The War between East and West, the Non-Aligned and the struggle...
France: Former Director of Louvre Charged for Art Trafficking
On Wednesday, the former president and director of the Louvre Museum were prosecuted under the charge of art trafficking.
May 26, 2022
Jean-Luc Martinez, former president...
Book Review Mozart’s intriguing if incomplete visage
Bravura surfing of the wave of history omits profound truths, writes JOHN GREEN
Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces
By Patrick Mackie
Granta...
How Russia Made 100 Million People Literate
What changes were made to improve the astonishingly low literacy rates in the USSR?
By Ethan Friend
Dec 13, 2019
It was vitally important that the Communists...
The reality of looted colonial art and restitution
"A high-priority cultural policy": The German Lost Art Foundation is hosting a conference on looted art and the restitution of colonial objects.
Dec 05, 2021
"As...
Henry Kissinger’s Last Crusade: Stopping Dangerous AI
By Belinda Luscombe
Nov 5, 2021
At the age of 98, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has a whole new area of interest: artificial...
Africa’s lost heritage and Europe’s restitution policies
France is returning artworks acquired in colonial times to Benin. Germany is also open to restitutions. How are other European countries addressing the issue?
Nov.9,...