- #163: Putin’s Russia Celebrates Its Own Fascism
- #160: Victim Blaming Par Excellence: Russia Complains About Those Helping Ukraine
- #159: Stop the Ukrainian Genocide
- µ08: Will Smith Apologized; Let It Go
- #158: Russia’s Entire “Special Operation” is a War Crime
- #157: Liars Lie. Stop Believing Putin and Lavrov
- #156: Politics, Arts and Sports: Some Erratic Reflections
- #154: Against Putin: Yes. Against Russia: No.
- #153: The Monstrosity of Vladimir Putin: We Have Learned Nothing From History
- #152: Democracy vs. Tyranny, or: How Does It Feel to Live in a Dictatorship?
- #151: Putin is a Fascist per Definition
- #149: As Putin is Orchestrating to Commit Genocide…
- #148: Putin Does Not Care About Russia. It’s a Russian Leader’s Tradition
- #147: Why Should We Care About Ukraine? A Pragmatic Answer
- #146: The Fall of the Soviet Union Was the Greatest Event of the Late 20th Century
- #145: Putin Has Never Been Threatened By NATO
- #144: Putin’s War Against Ukraine Is a War Against All of Us
- #143: The Madness of the Czar: Putin’s Incoherent Speech
- #142: Oh, Canada…
- #141: Is Wearing a Star of David Labeled “Unvaccinated” Anti-Semitic?
- #140: We Need Vaccine Mandates After All
- #139: Nature Demands Humility: Lessons from Jurassic Park World
- #138: The West is not Weak, But It Has Lacked Commitment
- #136: Is Putin the Aggressor?
- #135: Conspiracy Belief, Science, Ego and Humility
- #134: If People Apologize for Their Mistake, They Should Not Be Cancelled
- #133: Am I Really Not Paying Attention If I Am Not Outraged?
- #131: Please Stop this Fascination with End-Times Rhetoric
- #130: German Hypocrisy: How to Claim to be a Moral Leader While Acting like an International Free-Loader. A Polemic
- #128: Russia is Part of the West
- #127: We Cannot Overcome Racism If We Talk About “Race” all the Time
- #126: NATO Is Not Threatening Russia, and Putin Knows It. Some Thoughts on Solutions.
- #125: Eliminating the Filibuster is Political Stupidity
- #122: Only a Zero Covid Strategy Will Bring Success
- #121: Outrage Is Not a Successful Communication Strategy
- #120: Differential Treatment of Vaccination Opponents is not Discrimination
- #119: Thoughts on Covid Vaccine Mandates
- #118: The Voter is Always Right: The Meaning of Democracy
- #117: It’s Not About Trump. It’s About the Issues
- #114: Be Quiet Sometimes
- #112: The Normality of Not Knowing
- #108: Carefulness Is Not Fear
- #105: We May Think We’re Done with the Virus, but the Virus is not Done with Us
- #104: Psychological Long Covid
- #103: The Story About the Lone Renegate Scientist Showing That Everyone Else Is Wrong
- #102: Brexit Means Brexit
- µ#2: Why the Posturing as if Pandemic was Over?
- #101: The Mask Does not just Protect You but Others as Well
- #99: Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism
- #98: The Populist Attack on Democracy During the Pandemic
- #97: Are We Prepared for Extraterrestrial Life?
- #96: We Need Neutral News Media
- #95: For Israel, For Palestine, For Peace
- #94: What Is Political Extremism Today?
- #92: The Impact of Brexit on Trade
- #91: The Transatlantic Perspective Needs to be Global
- #90: In Defense of “Wokeness”
- #86: Nature Is Stronger than Us: The Pandemic, not the Lockdown, Is the Problem
- #85: Anti-Asian Hate and the Human Capacity for Divisiveness
- #84: Panicking Is Not a Good Strategy
- #83: The Purpose of History, or, We Need to Explain Democracy Better
- #82: Only Logic Will Help Us Out of the Pandemic
- #80: There is No Alternative to Dialog and Debate
- #79: The Need for the Public Understanding of Humanities and Social Science Theory
- #78: What Is Social Justice – and What Isn’t
- #76: We Need No Saviors
- #75: There are no “Internal Matters”
- #74: On the Difference Between Scientific and Mythological Thinking
- #72: Can We Trust The Media?
- #71: The Improvement of Society Never Ends
- #69: No, American Democracy is Not Dead
- #68: We Do Not Need Enemies
- #67: This Perfect Virus Exploits Our Weaknesses
- #66: Democracy Needs Well-Educated Citizens
- #65: Sine Ira et Studio: The Strength of Dispassionate Criticism
- #64: The Illusion of Brexit
- #62: Democracy is a Consensus-Creation Machine
- #61: We All Need to Appreciate Each Other
- #60: How We Know that the New Coronavirus Is a Real Threat
- #58: Question Everything; But Also Yourself
- #56: Disentangling Race and Ethnicity
- #55: It’s The Uncertainty That Makes Us Worry
- #54: The Dictator as False Messiah: A Belated Review of Game Of Thrones Season 8
- #53: What Is “Left”? A Very Erratic Attempt
- #52: Crisis Fatigue
- #51: The Politics of Division Cannot Work
- #48: Moderation is Strength; Radicality is Weakness
- #46: We Need to Move Beyond the Left/Right Paradigm
- #45: Benefit of the Doubt
- #44: There is Too Much “Now” Today
- #43: “Worst Persons” in the World: Hate is the New Normal
- #42: Be the World You Want It to Be
- #40: Enabling Free Speech, or, the Problem of the Public Sphere
- #39: Free Speech is Absolute
- #38: Radical Empathy
- #37: Coronavirus, the Amfortas Wound?
- #36: Diversity Is Democracy, and It Is Not a Zero-Sum Game
- #35: What Is Social Constructivism?
- #34: What is White Privilege?
- #33: Race Does Not Exist. But Racism Does