The “affective interlude” in Korean serial television (K-Dramas) emblemizes the appeal of the K-drama through its focus on the emotions of characters and its solicitation of viewer sympathy, all of…
Congress and the Biden administration are weighing various legislative and executive actions to ban TikTok, a social media platform with approximately 150 million US users. However, broad restrictions on TikTok…
From the satanism scare of the 1980s and 1990s to the contemporary myth of White genocide, White South African culture seems to be particularly prone to moral panics. This article…
The unresolved conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh and the continued threat of renewed large-scale war have shifted the focus from domestic to externally conditioned human rights issues in the South Caucasus. Observance…
The decolonization that spanned across the 20th century dramatically reshaped our world, but what often escapes common knowledge about this period is that anticolonial intellectuals and statesmen did not only…
This article focuses on the politicization of the Eurovision Song Contest in Ukraine in terms of nation-building in a post-Soviet context. Drawing from recent developments in Ukraine since the annexation…
Following a terrorist attack on Christchurch mosques in March 2019, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron issued the “Christchurch Call.” This article summarizes…
Argentina’s new government is faltering. The country was on its knees prior to the pandemic, mired in a multiyear recession and debt crisis. Today, it is a COVID-19 hot spot,…
The Proud Boys are one of the most dangerous organizations in the Western world because they reframe their extremism as an assertion of their masculinity. It is through this masculine…
In November 2018, Mark Zuckerberg proposed a new “Supreme Court” for Facebook, the “Facebook Oversight Board,” which will handle content moderation issues. The proposal is a response to the…
