Young people worldwide are losing faith in political institutions and the elites who run them. In India, they have so far restrained themselves, knowing the state can punish dissent brutally. But this restraint may not last.
The protests that dislodged a Minister could not translate into success on campus and in byelections, and it remains to be seen whether the Cockroach movement will herald an alternative order.
On October 16, in Delhi’s Connaught Place, a former BJP voter unfolded a giant tricolour and sparked a spectacular march—a moment that revealed why the party’s real fear is not the protesters it can barricade, but the believers it cannot.
What Party Represents America? One represents immigrant-invaders, the other represents Israel Paul Craig Roberts Perhaps the question should be: Which […]
Modi’s politics is built on fear and state violence, but the crackdown on protesters in Delhi has exposed the constraints of that strategy. Their defiance, alongside Rahul Gandhi’s mobilisation of the opposition, shows even kings can run out of road.
Leaking roofs, overcrowded classrooms and a university admissions system that leaves thousands in limbo have driven French students to protest. The state’s answer has been a campaign of police violence.
The Constitution gave our pluralist inheritance institutional form, but institutions draw on the moral imaginary around them, and that imaginary is now contested on the ground.
The doomsday scenario painted by some AI industry insiders cannot be brushed off. But is it also a ploy by the tech behemoths to shut the door on smaller players, secure profits, and establish dominance?
The European Union still lacks an adequate understanding of the China it is negotiating with and of the world in which it now has to compete. Geopolitics and the Illusions of Power: Europe’s Refusal to Adapt It is common for Europe to regard many of its economic problems as being China’s fault—this being a convenient […]
In Digger, Alejandro González Iñárritu makes a fragile, unlikeable climate change satire, then we find it’s a satire of that satire. But can we also make satire rooted in hope?