July 5, 2018
VOLT’S EUROPEAN DREAM
Brussels beware — there’s a new kid on the block. Volt Europa, a new pan-European progressive movement that aims to radically reform Europe, is running for office. Its short-term...
June 17, 2018
LGBTQ IN CROATIA: NIGHT TURNED TO DAWN, BUT IS IT GETTING BRIGHTER?
If you wanted to go on the first LGBTQ pride parade in Croatia that occurred in Zagreb in 2002, you had to be very brave to say the least....
June 4, 2018
A STEADY CRESCENDO: THE RISE OF THE YOUNG PARISIAN OPERAPHILE
Standing ovation. After three hours of soaring sopranos, resonant baritones and everything in between, Paris’s Bastille Opera house comes alive. On this warm evening in the twilight of spring,...
July 13, 2018
IN SEARCH OF ERASMUS: THE WOMAN WHO INTRODUCED STUDENTS TO EUROPE
What could we still learn from the insights of a long-dead thinker? I had no idea. But after travelling to 12 cities that were also visited by humanist Desiderius...
June 22, 2018
IN SEARCH OF ERASMUS: THE REPUBLIC OF THE DENOUNCED
What could we still learn from the insights of a long-dead thinker? I had no idea. But after travelling to 12 cities that were also visited by humanist Desiderius...
June 12, 2018
IN SEARCH OF ERASMUS: EUROPE WITH(OUT) BORDERS
What could we still learn from the insights of a long-dead thinker? I had no idea. But after travelling to 12 cities that were also visited by humanist Desiderius...
June 7, 2018
CULTURE IS APPROPRIATION
I had hoped to make it through my life without bloating the internet with yet another article on cultural appropriation. But I’m afraid I couldn’t stop myself. Blame Jeremy...
May 21, 2018
THE EIGHTH: TIME IS WELL AND TRULY UP
A referendum held a decade before I was born has shaped the Ireland I was born into, grew up in, and later emigrated from. The Eighth Amendment to the...
May 2, 2018
EUROPEAN PATRIOTISM ISN’T THE ANSWER
I admit it. I’m a terrible Remainer. Sure, I hung a ‘Vote Remain’ poster in my window. Sure, I made the unprecedented step of discussing politics with my family...