Who are the real Hungarians?
With conservative and authoritarian waves across Europe ebbing and flowing, Hungary is once again getting its fair — or, to some, unfair — share of media exposure. Behaving somewhat like the...
Category: Politics
Hulk Hogan Body Slams Gawker in Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press
Brian Knappenberger’s Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press, which just hit Netflix, originally held the more sensational (and unwieldy) working title Nobody Speak: Hulk Hogan, Gawker and...
Bijan Ebrahimi’s racist and disablist murder ‘preventable’ by UK police
When somebody leaves their country of origin due to danger or fear and seeks asylum — and makes a home — in a new part of the world, it is the responsibility of those in their new nation...
Protecting truly free speech is hard work
Recently I undertook a final year undergraduate class in political philosophy. The opening lecture commenced with a trailer from 1984 (1984). This film adaptation of George Orwell’s...
35 years after Vincent Chin’s brutal murder, nothing has changed
Vincent Chin promised his mother that this was the last time he’d be going out to the club. Before he left home, she told him not to say “last time” as it was bad luck. I suspect that...
The Other Madman in the White House
For some young people, myself included, the name Alex Jones is not unfamiliar. He’s the guy from the gay juice-box video. In one of the most classic items in the Infowars canon, Jones...
Western responses to terrorism are making it worse
Terror attacks in the West have over the years taken on a predictable response. Immediately, the internet runs wild with speculation – much of it wrong, much of it racist. If the perpetrator...
Violence is an existential threat to American democracy
After the shooting of Representative Steve Scalise and four others on June 14th, Republican Representative Steve King was quoted by Boston Globe reporter Annie Linskey saying that violence in...
Grenfell Tower Fire Deaths: Yes, It’s Political
30 people have been confirmed dead following a massive fire in a block of flats in London, though it is impossible to believe that the final number of dead residents will be anything under...
America doesn’t have a gun problem: It has a violence problem
On Wednesday morning, two very different incidents unfolded on opposite sides of the United States. In Virginia, a practice for the traditional Congressional Baseball Game was interrupted by a...