Arts
Guilty by Citation
“All the routines of daily life are affected. You choose between being spat on in public places or staying at home. You are completely exposed. It suddenly becomes quiet all around you. Friends you have [more…]
Sweden
Arts
On Being Doxxed
Fellow Postaliers, imagine that you fire up your computer in the morning, open the Daily Express website to check the headlines and find yourself looking at your own swooningly handsome visage, in a row of [more…]
Elections
How Goes the War?
Steve Bannon is reportedly [Inside Bannon’s Plan to Hijack Europe for the Far-Right] shovelling money in the direction of various nationalist European parties and causes, so it may be a good time to assess where [more…]
Book Review
Review: Travels in Cultural Nihilism by Stephen Pax Leonard
“One wonders if there are any frontiers or limits to this celebration of diversity. Is one meant to jump and cheer in the name of anti-racism if we elect a Muslim Prime Minister or [more…]
Culture
City of Lead
Malmö main square or A City in Metamorphosis Who now remembers that Helsinki was a mainly Swedish-speaking city 100 years ago, known as Helsingfors to the rest of Europe? In this case, only the language [more…]
Ethics
A reason for reconsidering support for the Red Cross
Barbro Feldt, a Red Cross volunteer in the Swedish town of Falun, died recently. She went “quickly and unexpectedly,” at the age of 71. Nobody is stating that the events described below killed her. But [more…]