6 Aug 2026, 17:03 UTC1 viewsread 7 August 2026 Photo
Ukraine and the existential struggle for freedom
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor
Thursday 6 August 2026
The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, whose work reshaped how humanity understands the hidden motives of the mind, once observed that “people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility and most people are frightened of responsibility.” This deceptively simple aphorism, drawn from …
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6 Aug 2026, 16:33 UTC1 viewsread 7 August 2026 Photo
Chinese versus western artificial intelligence technology
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor
Thursday 6 August 2026
The question of whether Chinese artificial intelligence has surpassed that of the West is frequently posed in absolute terms, as though technological progress were a sporting contest in which one side inevitably emerges victorious. Such framing is tempting because it simplifies an immensely complicat…
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5 Aug 2026, 10:16 UTC2 viewsread 7 August 2026 Photo
The Expanding Battlespace — Ukraine’s Moral Burden in an Age of Long-Range Drone Warfare
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor
Wednesday 5 August 2026
War has an inexorable tendency to erase the distinction between front and rear. What begins as a contest between armies gradually envelops factories, railways, ports, energy infrastructure and eventually entire societies. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has dem…
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5 Aug 2026, 09:58 UTC2 viewsread 7 August 2026 Photo
Russia’s New “Civic Death” Legislation — Exile Without Citizenship
By Matthew Parish
Wednesday 5 August 2026
The Russian State Duma’s latest legislation targeting Russians convicted in absentia while living abroad marks another significant stage in the evolution of the Putin government’s system of political control. While the Kremlin presents the measures as a necessary response to criminals who evade justice by re…
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4 Aug 2026, 13:09 UTC1 viewsread 7 August 2026 Photo
Realism and anti-realism in an age of artificial intelligence
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor
Tuesday 4 August 2026
The debate between realism and anti-realism in the philosophy of language has acquired an unexpected urgency in the age of artificial intelligence. For decades it was a dispute that occupied philosophers, linguists and logicians, often appearing detached from practical affairs. Today, however, the…
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4 Aug 2026, 12:41 UTC1 viewsread 7 August 2026 Photo
A Vehicle of Memory: A Journey to Lviv
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor
Tuesday 4 August 2026
There are journeys whose significance lies entirely in their destination. There are others remembered only because of some singular event that interrupts their monotony—a collision, an unexpected romance, an argument at a customs barrier, the discovery of a remarkable village whose church bell seems to ring…
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3 Aug 2026, 16:27 UTC3 viewsread 7 August 2026 Photo
The Shadow of a New Desert War: Could Saudi Arabia Return to Yemen?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor
Monday 3 August 2026
History has a curious habit of returning to the same landscapes, albeit wearing different uniforms. Yemen has long been one of those landscapes—a country whose forbidding mountains, fractured tribal allegiances and strategic geography have repeatedly confounded foreign powers convinced that s…
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3 Aug 2026, 16:05 UTC3 viewsread 7 August 2026 Photo
Ceuta’s Tragedy — When Human Lives Become Instruments of Diplomacy
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor
Monday 3 August 2026
The scenes emerging from Ceuta have once again reminded Europe that borders are never merely lines upon a map. They are places where history, politics, economics and human desperation collide — often with tragic consequences. Reports that tens of thousands of Moroccan nationals attempted to en…
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3 Aug 2026, 15:43 UTC3 viewsread 7 August 2026 Photo
The Critique of Artificial Beauty: What Kant’s Third Critique Can Teach Us About Artificial Intelligence
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor
Monday 3 August 2026
The arrival of artificial intelligence has unsettled far more than economics, politics and warfare. It has begun to disturb one of humanity’s oldest assumptions: that creativity belongs uniquely to ourselves. Machines now compose symphonies, paint portrait…
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3 Aug 2026, 15:10 UTC3 viewsread 7 August 2026 Photo
Tramhaus in Lviv: When European Post-Punk Finds a City That Understands It
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor
Monday 3 August 2026
There are concerts that are merely performances and there are concerts that become conversations with the cities that host them. The appearance of the Rotterdam post-punk band Tramhaus at the Nyzhnii Zal beneath Lviv’s Puppet Theatre on 1 July 2026 belonged emphatically to the latter c…
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3 Aug 2026, 14:46 UTC3 viewsread 7 August 2026 Photo
Russian government persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor
Monday 3 August 2026
Before the first church bell rings, before the first commuter boards the Moscow Metro, before the first bureaucrat has opened the day’s files, the machinery of the modern Russian state has already accomplished something extraordinary. It has transformed peaceful prayer into political extremism. It has conv…
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2 Aug 2026, 13:46 UTC3 viewsread 7 August 2026 Photo
The Passport and the Rifle: Life in the Russian-occupied Territories
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor
Sunday 2 August 2026
There are occupations that seize land, and there are occupations that seek to seize souls. The first is visible on maps. The second is written in school registers, civil records, marriage certificates and passports. It is measured not in kilometres but in identities. The Russian occupation…
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