Society, Media and Culture

Disruptive climate protests are held responsible for alienating the public from a just cause. But the demonisation of climate activism is nothing new.

Europe has no shortage of libraries and yet there is no European Library. How can that be?

As sociologist Eric Klinenberg reminds us in his eponymous book, libraries are “palaces for the people”.

The proposed EU Media Freedom Act represents a positive change of course, but it fails to provide badly needed subsidies to quality news outlets.

Two members of Ultima Generazione explain the reasons and goals behind their disruptive actions of civil disobedience.

Why memory matters: it makes us historical subjects capable of imagining the future.

The fight against climate catastrophe brings together many currents of thought, from a more reformist environmentalism to a more radical ecology.

On one side, a political party looking for a people. On the other, a people struggling to find a political outlet. In between, an unfolding climate crisis.

The battle for the future of Russia has planetary dimensions, argues Martin Vrba.

A short story about your dearest memory and the money you did not know it was worth.