Where will politicization of the response to COVID-19 end? When former President G.W. Bush issued calls to put partisanship aside and unite in the fight against COVID-19, President Trump virulently criticized the former, reproaching him with not taking his side when Democrats launched the impeachment process against him.
Tag: politics
In the 2019-2020 winter, pre-COVID-19, the odds for Trump’s reelection were good… Unfortunately for him, the Covid health crisis reshuffled the deck.
What is The nobile Officium? It had previously been regarded as obscure, and few people had even heard of it, but that was all set to change with Brexit.
By Donna McCormack, School of Literature and Languages, University of Surrey The Monster Network has been busy doing collective work…
Pop music and youth culture are known to be among the great British exports of the late twentieth century. Be…
International Relations
Q&A with Stephen Bowman, Author of The Pilgrims Society and Public Diplomacy, 1895–1945
Tell us a bit about The Pilgrims Society and Public Diplomacy, 1895–1945 My book is about the Pilgrims Society, which…
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
7 things you should know about the destruction of graves in the Islamic world
By Ondrej Beranek and Pavel Tupek 1) Over the past years and decades, various parts of the Islamic world –…
In 1963, Jean-Luc Nancy tackled the subject of generational silence in his article ‘A Certain Silence’ (republished in OLR in…
At the recent Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Theresa May’s speech turned into the stuff of every presenter’s nightmares, something…
Since the Federal Republic of Germany’s admission into NATO in 1955, German–American relations have been a cornerstone of transatlantic and…