CLIMATE / EXTREMISM: Paul Schrader has made a powerful, disturbing and socially relevant portrait of one of God's lonely men, with clear parallels to Taxi Driver.
Halil Karaveli: Why Turkey is Authoritarian. From Atatürk to Erdogan
: The man who founded Turkey as a modern state in 1923 did so on authoritarian terms. Thus, Erdogan and Atatürk are just two cubits out of one piece, Halil Karaveli claims.
Gorana Ognjenovic and Jasna Jozelic (eds.): Education in Post-Conflict Transition. The Politization of Religion in School Textbooks
: A new anthology does not ask about, but to what extent religious education in the Balkans is politicized. However, the editors fail to argue for what politicization means at all.
: Derrida's juxtaposition of Christianity and modern journalism is thought-provoking, but it is difficult to take the philosopher's ideological critique of the media as a Christian phenomenon seriously.