Justina Poskeviciute

Brazil: How to Weaken Democracy from Within

The dance between democracy and authoritarianism: that has been the main topic of my articles and my podcast. That dance can take different forms. And Brazil presents to us yet another one.

Are You Allowed to Represent Yourself?

What is the current paradigm when it comes to who is allowed to represent whom? What is the role that the concept of a myth plays here?
And why do we have to talk about political representation in the first place?
On International Women’s Day or any other day, these are important questions to ask — and to take action.

What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Palestine? Part 3: Media Silence

What is the role of the media in portraying what’s happening in Palestine? Can its role be “neutral”? Definitely not.The media is not a part of the debate; it is the debate.

What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Palestine? Part 2: Hypocrisy

What might we find at the very core of debates surrounding this conflict?
Certainly not always, but sometimes, there is a layer of hypocrisy we need to cut through.

Belarus, Chile, and the Never Agains

This episode is on the concept of Never Again and how we’ve failed at it. How to analyse conflicts in the first place? What tools do we have?

It’s Time For Your Political Attitude Checkup!

This is my attempt to do a deep dive into concepts like political ideology, economic systems, and, ah, the focus of my rather dense episode, political attitudes. What does it mean to be liberal or conservative according to the framework of political attitudes? Is it always straightforward? (You’ve guessed correctly: no). In this episode, IContinue reading “It’s Time For Your Political Attitude Checkup!”

In Insurrection We Trust?

Just when we thought 2021 might be the new beginning we were all waiting for, the insurrection happened in the U.S. To see an attempted coup in established democracies is, thankfully, rather rare, which makes it very much podcast-worthy.