Articles and Podcast Episodes

  • Privilege: What Makes Us Change? Part 3

    In the fourth part of my series on privilege, I take the liberty to tell you about my own privilege journey. How the concept of privilege has changed throughout my life, what directions it took, what different regions have to do with it, and how it explains so much of what you’re hearing in all…

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  • Privilege: What Makes Us Change? Part 2

    Can we inspect the very lens through which we see the world? How can reflecting on the concept of privilege help us here?

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  • Russia, China, and Our Endless Cold (And Hot) Wars

    It is not an exaggeration that the West, in particular the United States, is escalating a new Cold War, or hybrid war, with China. In fact, it is quite the opposite: to not acknowledge or warn against it would be taking a completely ahistorical position.

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  • Privilege: What Makes Us Change? Part 1

    What makes us change? What changes the way we perceive the world and our place in it? And although privilege is not the only lens through which we see the world, I think it contains an important part of the answer to these questions. Let’s dive in!

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  • Impunity: What Happens When The Powerful Investigate Their Own Crimes

    Impunity: What Happens When The Powerful Investigate Their Own Crimes

    It always seems a bit dystopian: the military investigating its own actions⁣⁣. To be more precise, what seems dystopian – or simply completely corrupt – is that same military concluding that “everything’s OK.” Unfortunately, dystopia is what we find in what we like to call liberal democracies.

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  • Privilege: Introduction

    Talking about privilege can be uncomfortable, it can easily make us defensive, and it does have the power to prevent us from taking significant action. That’s why, we have to talk about it!

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  • The Exploding Head Podcast Goes into its Second Season

    Although my articles didn’t stop, my podcast did take a needed break⁣⁣. Now, I’m back for the second season of The Exploded Head. In its intro episode, I review what I’ve talked about already and give you some ideas of what I’ll be covering in the near future.

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  • Israel’s War on Children: The Continuous Trauma of Gaza

    Seven years after Protective Edge, we find Gaza and its children living in conditions that are even more dire than before. The trauma inflicted by Israel’s attacks and by its total siege on the region continues. In fact, it is unfolding as we speak.

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  • Afghanistan: What’s Next?

    The Taliban has taken power in Afghanistan. It finally happened and it’s terrifying. “Kabul has fallen,” the press tells us. But what’s next? How do we assess what happened, learn from it, and find the best ways to help the Afghan people now?

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  • Human Rights Watch: Israel’s Recent Attacks on Gaza Constitute War Crimes

    If you’re not an expert on International Law but if Israel’s recent attacks on Gaza looked like war crimes to you, your questions have now been answered. War crimes: this is what Human Rights Watch has concluded in its recent report.

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