Europe
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Sovereignty used to be simple—national governments called the shots, end of story. Now, it’s a different game. The European Union changed everything. Countries pool their power, working together when they need to tackle big stuff like financial crises, outbreaks, or even conflicts. So, sovereignty isn’t disappearing. It’s just spread out, divided between Brussels and the…
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In moments of crisis, Europe’s cultural institutions do more than preserve art — they preserve meaning. As political systems strain under pressure, museums, universities, and literary traditions become spaces where memory, identity, and moral responsibility are negotiated. Their role grows not in stability, but when certainty begins to fracture.
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Europe’s political class has mastered the language of policy but lost the language of people. As abstraction replaces clarity, frustration quietly replaces trust.
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In Western Europe, people see history as something safely behind them. They mark anniversaries and keep records. They have thoughtful conversations about the past. Then, they get back to discussing economic growth or how to run the place more smoothly. After the Cold War, most folks there assumed Europe had moved into a “post-historical” phase.…
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Europe is often defined by its laws, treaties, and institutions. But when crises hit, those legal frameworks rarely inspire unity or belonging. What endures instead is language — the dialects, literatures, and voices that carry memory across borders. Europe’s deepest identity was never written into law. It was spoken, argued over, and passed down long…
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Europe is often explained through treaties, summits, and policy language—but those tools rarely capture how Europe actually feels. While political theory tries to impose order, novels reveal the continent’s contradictions, moral anxieties, and lived realities. From Dostoevsky to Kundera, European fiction exposes the inner tensions that institutions can manage but never fully explain.
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For years, Germany held Europe together with its steady hand—always cautious, always focused on building consensus, and powered by a strong economy. Now, as war rattles the continent and security feels more urgent than ever, Germany’s reluctance is just as powerful as its old leadership style. In this essay, I’ll look at how Germany’s past,…
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The Towns That Remember: Why Europe’s Future Will Be Written Far From Its Capitals By Jackson Mitchell— Opinion For decades, we were taught that Europe’s identity—its politics, its culture, its intellectual life—flowed downward from its capitals. Paris sets the tone, Berlin charts the course, Brussels writes the rules. If you really want to understand where…
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The literary review that is quietly moving across Europe: why readers and students are moving back to the long, complex conversations only a book can hold, in the digital age.
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