April 25, 2020

L’heure jaune (The yellow hour)

“To my father, who transformed the famous “blue hour”, which appears when the sun is setting, and told me about the yellow hour… Thus, he is this poem’s source of inspiration.”

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The Beaver

How to Be Disabled (Correctly).

Sophie highlights how society imposes contradictory and performative expectations on disabled people.

A Women’s War: Modern Justification of Genocide and Colonialism.

Hareem claims that Western powers weaponise feminist rhetoric to justify imperialist violence.

Dubai and the End of Bought Neutrality

Anna contends that Dubai’s promise of insulation from Middle Eastern instability was always precarious, and recent conflict exposes how wealth cannot ultimately shield a city from geography, politics, or human consequences.

‘Nobody actually knows what Trump’s goals in Iran are, not even Trump himself’

Andrei argues that Trump’s war on Iran is incoherent and contradictory, with no clear strategy, and appears largely driven by Netanyahu’s political interests.

You’re Not As Superior As You Think You Are

Amy argues that elitist attitudes at LSE, rooted in unexamined class privilege and reinforced by superficial markers of academic prestige, are both sociologically unfounded and hypocritical.