Subcategories within the Category “Politics”:
- Brexit
- Conspiracy Theories
- Coronavirus
- Democracy
- Ethnicity, Race & Racism
- Europe
- Freedom
- Free Speech
- Globalization
- Ukraine & Russia
- Utopia
List of all Posts in the Category “Politics”:
- #206: The Importance of Being Political (1/18/2023)
- #205: If You Want Peace: Why We Must Help Ukraine (1/16/2023)
- #204: Poem: Путин, идиот (Putin, You Idiot) (12/28/2022)
- #203: The Puzzling Resistance Against Anti-Racism (12/27/2022)
- #202: Fear Not: Why We Need to be Optimistic About the Future (12/27/2022)
- #200: The Nature Around Us (12/10/2022)
- #199: Why Positionality Matters (12/6/2022)
- #198: LGBTQ Rights are Human Rights (11/21/2022)
- #197: We Have Good Reasons for Hope (11/8/2022)
- #195: Fake “Referenda” Prove that Putin Doesn’t Want to Negotiate (9/25/2022)
- #194: No, the Pandemic is Not Yet Over (9/19/2022)
- #193: De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bene: We Owe Respect to the Dead (9/10/2022)
- #192: Biden Needs to Unite, not Demonize: In a Democracy, the “Other Side” Is Not the Enemy (9/4/2022)
- #191: Remembering Mikhail Gorbachev (8/30/2022)
- #190: On the Ability of Russians to Suffer their Government (8/27/2022)
- #189: Soviet Monuments Need To Go (8/27/2022)
- #188: What Is “The West” Today? From “Civilization” to Cooperation (8/27/2022)
- #187: Words Are Not Violence (8/17/2022)
- #186: Salman Rushdie and the Case for Free Speech (8/17/2022)
- #184: Anecdotal Thinking, Science, Religion, and Policy (8/11/2022)
- #183: What Are Russians Thinking? (7/31/2022)
- #182: Reflections on Identity, Purpose, and the Active Life (7/31/2022)
- #181: Are We too Stupid for the Internet? (7/30/2022)
- #180: Let Biden Be Biden (7/26/2022)
- #179: Ecce Homo: Wokeness Beyond Caricatures (7/20/2022)
- #178: Russia Deserves Better (7/14/2022)
- #177: Thinking Beyond Caricatures (7/11/2022)
- #176: Get Brexit Undone (7/9/2022)
- #175: The Metaverse Is Not The Solution (7/9/2022)
- #174: Climate Change Can Only Be Countered With Technological Innovation (7/9/2022)
- #173: Putin and Lavrov Demonstrate the Weakness of Today’s Russia (7/9/2022)
- #171: Writing as Witnessing (6/22/2022)
- #170: Sanctions Against Russia Are Working – And Need to Be Even Stronger (6/21/2022)
- #169: What Russia Claims to Want Is Irrelevant Now (6/7/2022)
- #168: Why Must Ukraine Win? (6/6/2022)
- #166: Reflections on Memorial Day (5/31/2022)
- #165: Realpolitik Is About Appeasing Power, not Reality or Morality (5/26/2022)
- #163: Putin’s Russia Celebrates Its Own Fascism (5/8/2022)
- #160: Victim Blaming Par Excellence: Russia Complains About Those Helping Ukraine (4/21/2022)
- #159: Stop the Ukrainian Genocide (4/6/2022)
- µ08: Will Smith Apologized; Let It Go (4/4/2022)
- #158: Russia’s Entire “Special Operation” Is a War Crime (3/18/2022)
- #157: Liars Lie. Stop Believing Putin and Lavrov (3/17/2022)
- #156: Politics, Arts and Sports: Some Erratic Reflections (3/17/2022)
- #155: Dear Russia: Make It Stop (3/12/2022)
- #154: Against Putin: Yes. Against Russia: No. (3/7/2022)
- #153: The Monstrosity of Vladimir Putin: We Have Learned Nothing From History (3/4/2022)
- #152: Democracy vs. Tyranny, or: How Does It Feel to Live in a Dictatorship? (3/2/2022)
- #151: Putin Is a Fascist per Definition (3/2/2022)
- #149: As Putin Is Orchestrating to Commit Genocide… (3/1/2022)
- #148: Putin Does Not Care About Russia. It’s a Russian Leader’s Tradition (2/28/2022)
- #147: Why Should We Care About Ukraine? A Pragmatic Answer (2/27/2022)
- #146: The Fall of the Soviet Union Was the Greatest Event of the Late 20th Century (2/27/2022)
- #145: Putin Has Never Been Threatened By NATO (2/27/2022)
- #144: Putin’s War Against Ukraine Is a War Against All of Us (2/24/2022)
- #143: The Madness of the Czar: Putin’s Incoherent Speech (2/22/2022)
- #142: Oh, Canada… (2/22/2022)
- #141: Is Wearing a Star of David Labeled “Unvaccinated” Anti-Semitic? (2/20/2022)
- #140: We Need Vaccine Mandates After All (2/19/2022)
- #139: Nature Demands Humility: Lessons from Jurassic Park World (2/14/2022)
- #138: The West Is not Weak, But It Has Lacked Commitment (2/14/2022)
- #136: Is Putin the Aggressor? (2/5/2022)
- #135: Conspiracy Belief, Science, Ego and Humility (2/3/2022)
- #134: If People Apologize for Their Mistake, They Should Not Be Cancelled (2/3/2022)
- #133: Am I Really Not Paying Attention If I Am Not Outraged? (1/31/2022)
- #131: Please Stop this Fascination with End-Times Rhetoric (1/26/2022)
- #130: German Hypocrisy: How to Claim to be a Moral Leader While Acting like an International Free-Loader. A Polemic (1/25/2022)
- #128: Russia Is Part of the West (1/19/2022)
- #127: We Cannot Overcome Racism If We Talk About “Race” all the Time (1/18/2022)
- #126: NATO Is Not Threatening Russia, and Putin Knows It. Some Thoughts on Solutions. (1/17/2022)
- #125: Eliminating the Filibuster Is Political Stupidity (1/15/2022)
- #122: Only a Zero Covid Strategy Will Bring Success (12/15/2021)
- #121: Outrage Is Not a Successful Communication Strategy (11/28/2021)
- #120: Differential Treatment of Vaccination Opponents Is not Discrimination (11/25/2021)
- #119: Thoughts on Covid Vaccine Mandates (11/25/2021)
- #118: The Voter is Always Right: The Meaning of Democracy (11/7/2021)
- #117: It’s Not About Trump. It’s About the Issues (11/4/2021)
- #114: Be Quiet Sometimes (9/27/2021)
- #112: The Normality of Not Knowing (9/15/2021)
- #108: Carefulness Is Not Fear (8/15/2021)
- #105: We May Think We’re Done with the Virus, but the Virus is not Done with Us (8/12/2021)
- #104: Psychological Long Covid (8/12/2021)
- #103: The Story About the Lone Renegate Scientist Showing That Everyone Else Is Wrong (8/6/2021)
- #102: Brexit Means Brexit (7/22/2021)
- µ#2: Why the Posturing as if Pandemic was Over? (7/16/2021)
- #101: The Mask Does not just Protect You but Others as Well (6/9/2021)
- #99: Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitism (5/29/2021)
- #98: The Populist Attack on Democracy During the Pandemic (5/22/2021)
- #97: Are We Prepared for Extraterrestrial Life? (5/22/2021)
- #96: We Need Neutral News Media (5/21/2021)
- #95: For Israel, For Palestine, For Peace (5/21/2021)
- #94: What Is Political Extremism Today? (5/13/2021)
- #92: The Impact of Brexit on Trade (4/28/2021)
- #91: The Transatlantic Perspective Needs to be Global (4/25/2021)
- #90: In Defense of “Wokeness” (4/22/2021)
- #86: Nature Is Stronger than Us: The Pandemic, not the Lockdown, Is the Problem (4/5/2021)
- #85: Anti-Asian Hate and the Human Capacity for Divisiveness (3/31/2021)
- #84: Panicking Is Not a Good Strategy (3/30/2021)
- #83: The Purpose of History, or, We Need to Explain Democracy Better (3/28/2021)
- #82: Only Logic Will Help Us Out of the Pandemic (3/25/2021)
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