Repairing the Polish Constitutional Tribunal: Mission Impossible?
Recently, dramatic images from Poland have circulated globally: the president grappling with judges, and a crowd besieging the Constitutional Tribunal (CT). The constitutional crisis has become hyper-politicized. This stands in stark contrast to what Donald Tusk’s reformist government, formed in 2023, promised: restoring democracy and the rule of law, a return to normalcy, and holding the Law and Justice (PiS) party accountable. With the next parliamentary election in 2027 looming already, these announcements have not quite come to pass.
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In his conclusion to The Wretched of the Earth, the philosopher-psychiatrist Frantz Fanon writes: “Come, then, comrades, the European game has finally ended; we must find [...]
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Elon Musk makes headlines almost daily. Depending on the audience, people quote his statements and either repeat them as mantras or hold them up as symptoms of global issues. [...]
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Of Violence and Vulnerabilities: Peter Schwartzstein on Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century
This podcast features Peter Schwartzstein, journalist and scholar, exploring how the climate crisis is reshaping the relationship between environmental stress, conflict, crime, migration and [...]
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Grieving the Countryside – Irina Velicu on Eco-grief, Peasant Dispossession and the Politics of Rural Loss
In this discussion with Irina Velicu, a political ecologist at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra whose work brings critical theory into conversation with political [...]