Review of Victoria Smith’s book Victoria Smith has recently published a book with a very suggestive title: Hags: The Demonisation of Middle Aged Women. Deconstructing the old age of women, the author suggests we resist...
Some thoughts on online whistleblowing We live in a time when technological advancement far outstrips the ability of governments to regulate. And, as usual, given the spread of social networks and search engines, regulation will...
Boyan Stanislavski speaks to Vitahlyi Makhinko, the chairman of the civic non-governmental organization European Galicia, a social and labor union activist with a long past record of defending the rights of Ukrainians abroad. Do you...
Reflections on Romanian education The beginning of this academic year was quite challenging for me. I witnessed conflicts between students and an attitude I was not used to. The level of dissatisfaction and aggression increased...
A short report from a recent event My friend Youri Smouter kept telling me that we have to accept the idea of socialism with Chinese, Romanian... or (I might add) Paraguayan characteristics. Today, March 25,...
An attempt to explain It is often said that it is literature that provides us with the best explanations of social phenomena in a condensed form. I tried to explain to a militant American pacifist,...
A sad picture The past week has been filled with landmark events on the Romanian Left. For three days, starting on Thursday, the conference "Capitalist transformations in Romania: unequal development and social gaps" was held...
What can be done? Here we are at the end of our story! Professor Andrei Mocearov has been patient enough to take us on this adventurous journey through misinformation, speculation and highly problematic reactions from...
Financialization of energy markets The energy crisis hides a financial crisis caused by speculation in the financial markets associated with the energy market. In August 2022, the hole in Romania's budget caused by energy price...
How the European Commission reacted to unpaid energy prices You'd expect a rational view from European officials. Unfortunately, ideological blindness makes them tribesmen of a fundamentalist faith in the efficiency of markets. All solutions to...
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