PHILOSOPHY: Is freedom of speech a matter for scholars? Are Trump and QAnon entitled to free speech? There is much to suggest that Kant would answer no to this question.
Khaled Khalifa. Translated from Arabic by Oda A. Winsnes: Death is a toil
SYRIA: A multisectoral, multi-religious, multi-linguistic and multiethnic state torn to shreds by the Ba'ath party, extremists, militias and rival superpowers, all demanding their share of the country.
Carl Schmitt Selection and introduction by Rune Slagstad. (Translated by Øystein Skar): Politics and justice. An anti-liberal theme with variations
POLITICAL THEORY: Politics is not a conversation club for the philosopher Carl Schmitt. It is rather the action that shows us who we are and who the enemy is.
Frode Fanebust: Cold war, secret army. Stay Behind in Norway
: During the Cold War, Stay Behind armies were to be mobilized in Western Europe in the event of a Soviet occupation. The British and Americans used some of these for other purposes.