The web’s top three #104
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains - and souls - need but that it's easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and...
Category: Themes
First contours of an Israeli plan for Gaza: what options does Biden have?
A one-page document submitted by Prime Minister Netanyahu to his cabinet in February provides no answers to the question of when Israel would consider its military objectives in Gaza met. It does,...
Mixed reality headsets in the real world: they’re novel, but are they safe?
Mixed reality headsets hit the streets and everything looks like an episode of Black Mirror. The first buyer of the Apple product was greeted as a hero with cheers and applause outside the store, and...
“Godfather for the 21st Century”: Dune: Part 2
The voice is pure guttural bass delivered from the void, thousands of years in the future. Every one of your 37 trillion cells shudders from the vibration. Sonic dread violently travels from the...
Are you proud? 20 Days in Mariupol
During my senior year of college, I taught a half-credit house course on Russian culture with some good friends. At that point in my life, I was still trying to fit in with my Russian relatives, the...
Why does Azerbaijan matter to the European Union?
Despite relatively tense political relations between the European Union and Azerbaijan, Brussels is aiming to strengthen energy cooperation with Baku. In an attempt to end its dependency on Russian...
The web’s top three #103
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains - and souls - need but that it's easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and...
Movies portraying true stories of powerful women, perfect for International Women’s Day
"I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life," said writer Maya Angelou. It's International Women's Day! And to commemorate the struggles and achievements of women...
“The sheer scale of their sins can never be completely hidden from view”: The Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer’s, The Zone of Interest exists as a title before slowly dissolving to a black screen, a lingering Kubrickian monolith transporting us back through time as only cinema can. Gothic...
International Women’s Day: 5 iconic Latinas who made history
International Women's Day is celebrated every year on March 8. Officially recognized by the United Nations in 1977, March 8 has become a key date to commemorate the social, political, cultural and...