Almost exactly a year ago, I launched my podcast by asking what good happened in 2020.
A year later, I ask the same about 2021.
Tag Archives: politics
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 of my podcast episodes. It explains so much that this episode could have been an introductory episode exactly a year ago when I started this podcast.
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?
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.
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!
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.
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!
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?
Always Wanted Your Bravery Tested? Here’s The Ultimate Test
An authoritarian regime is being dismantled in Belarus: what is this process and how come it is turning people into heroes without their permission?
What Does The Exploding Head Even Mean?
Do you ever feel like your head is about to explode? What are the issues that have that effect on you? I claim that intellectually “getting” a certain situation doesn’t make you immune to feeling a certain way about it. In the end, I think this is what makes us human: it is very much allowed.
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