A system that privileges rationality over emotion is a system that protects the status quo. Stories have no such qualms.
National dialogues operate outside the permanent institutions of government; moving beyond the Westminster bubble to listen to the communities who feel disconnected from government.
It was not always like this. Hinduism neutralised competing elements by absorbing them. This faith tradition was strong enough to let internal theological differences and dissent be aired.
For decades, radical right-wing populism has been accompanied by a narrative warning of the fundamental threat these parties pose to liberal democracy. The effect has been close to zero.
We need to change minds with a positive message like DIEM25’s proposal of a European Green New Deal.
How should companies like Netflix respond when repressive governments order the removal of critical content?
Why the Homeland Hack is not a commodity.
Read the newspapers, listen to the TV “debates” and see the WhatsApp-trained ignorant armies clash day and night.
The far right’s claim to be attached to ‘Europe’, not the EU, suggests that ‘European identity’ may pose a challenge rather than an opportunity for the European Union.
