Although democracy in Athens only lasted 200 hundred years, the achievements of this epoch still influence us to this day.
“We live in a time of social, economic, and ecological unravelling."
Imagine a world where free speech, free choice, and free thoughts are a thing of the past.
Like most political concepts, democracy has no clear-cut, universal definition. It is helpful, then, to look at its ancient origins.
11 percent is roughly the percentage of the world's population that live their lives in a full-fledged democracy.
We probably stand as good a chance as any to mend the peace that, potentially, could end all major wars.
The apocalypse is a place that, paradoxically, makes us feel quite safe.
by Lapo Lappin Recently I was sucked into a WhatsApp group chat called ”The Italians” – a safe haven for Erasmus students far from the peninsula.
By Charley Iszatt Users on Instagram – through producing images and coding them with hashtags – create a commons of social, cultural and political information. In
By Egil Sturk In his short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940) Jorge Luis Borges imagines a secret 17th-century society of scholars called Orbis Tertius, akin