The far right did not conquer the European Parliament – but this doesn’t mean the threats to our rights have receded. Just look at what’s happening in Italy today.
The people accepted electoral authoritarianism for their security. This neutralised warnings by intellectuals and opposition parties that Modi’s India was heading towards fascism.
“I’m not neutral in this debate, as I’m an anti-Zionist diasporic Israeli Jew most of whose family have been murdered by the Nazis… and I have fought against the homogenizing and reifying effects of identity politics.”
Leaked proposals from a senior Irish politician, backed by powerful Christian lobbyists, raise stakes in European elections, where the far right is pushing for big gains
The bill of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government bars civil servants in ‘authority’, such as judges, prosecutors, police officers, teachers and school administrators from wearing religious symbols at work.
Cathedrals are sacred Christian spaces and secular sights of interest, sometimes simultaneously. In historic moments of cultural importance the religious and the secular intertwine in the public sphere. This ‘civil religion’ remains powerful.
