Analyses
Yassin al-Haj Saleh: After Assad, Syria Must Free Itself from Sectarianism
Riccardo Cristiano 12 December 2024
Yassin al-Haj Saleh, born in 1961, is one of Syria’s foremost intellectuals and a long-standing dissident against the Assad regime. He spent sixteen years in prison for “political reasons,” including time in the maximum-security facility of Tadmur, also known as Palmyra. With the onset of the Syrian Spring, he immediately emerged as an opponent of the regime.
  • The Legacy of Pope Francis
    José Casanova 23 April 2025
    Nobody knows who is going to be Francis’s successor and what kind of new direction he will give to his pontificate. But after encountering the last five Popes, from John XXIII to Francis, all great Catholic Popes and great global leaders, each uniquely placing their emphases on different aspects of the pluralist Catholic tradition, we can be almost sure that the next Pope is likely to continue the Catholic legacy in his unique personal way, leading the global church as the Bishop of Rome, while also continue working, in the words of Pope Benedict XVI, “for the advancement of humanity and of universal fraternity.”
  • A Shepherd for the Poor, Peace, and Nature
    Nadia Urbinati 22 April 2025
    A son of Argentina, cradle of populism—a rhetoric that slices facts and ideas in two, goes straight for the emotions, and makes no concessions, because right and wrong must fall clearly on one side or the other. Argentine populism was socially nationalist in politics and conservative in values. Likewise, Pope Francis was a progressive populist on social issues and conservative on moral ones—after all, a position consistent with the principles of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • Trump is Erecting a Police State in America
    Hussein Ibish 18 April 2025
    In the increasingly surreal second Donald Trump administration, a 29-year-old Salvadoran named Kilmar Abrego Garcia now embodies the most fundamental restructuring of the US constitutional order, arguably in its history. Mr Garcia is being used as a test case for the Trump administration to decouple Americans from the rule of law and protection of courts. His case may be operating at the margins of American society, but its implications potentially represent a redefinition of the relationship between the individual and the US government.
  • Curtis Yarvin, Nick Land and the Dark Utopia
    of the New Radical Right
    Editorial board in collaboration with AI 17 April 2025
    A galaxy of intellectuals, theorists, entrepreneurs, and cultural agitators is rewriting the language of the American right. In place of old conservatism, a new vision is taking shape—anti-egalitarian, anti-liberal, and post-democratic—one that looks to both the feudal past and the digital future to imagine a new order: hierarchical, technical, algorithmic. At its center stands the enigmatic figure of Curtis Yarvin.
  • Tectonic Shifts, Not Total Decoupling: Shaun Breslin
    on U.S.-China Trade War
    Alessandra Tommasi 17 April 2025
    Tit-for-tat tariff hikes have paused (for now) at 145% on Chinese imports into the U.S., countered by 125% levies on American goods heading to China. But the trade war shows no signs of ending: the White House is already threatening to raise tariffs again – this time to a staggering 245% – “as a result of China’s retaliatory actions,” and is not ruling out that countries – from neighboring Latin America to Europe – may soon have to choose between Beijing and Washington. Xi Jinping has vowed that China would “fight to the end.” For a Chinese perspective on this trade war, Reset DOC has reached out to Professor Shaun Breslin, Director of the European Hub for Contemporary China.
  • Obama: Core Principles of Democracy Are Eroding
    Under Trump’s Agenda
    Editorial Board 10 April 2025
    “It is up to all of us to fix this.” In his first public speech since Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, Barack Obama urged Americans to defend democratic values and called on institutions—particularly universities and law firms—to resist the administration’s attacks. “I have deep differences of opinion with my most immediate successor—who’s now president once again,” Obama told students of Hamilton College, without naming Trump directly, “but at least for most of my time, I’d say the post-World War II era, there was a broad consensus between Democrats, Republicans, conservatives, liberals around a certain set of rules where we settle our differences—[…] bonds that transcend party, region, or ideology.”
  • Slobodian: Beyond Neoliberalism, Techno-Feudal Dystopias Riding the Far Right’s Wave
    Fulvia Giachetti 9 April 2025
    Are we witnessing the rise of a new world order—one ruled not by governments, but by private armies, tech tycoons, and corporate fiefdoms? What sounds like dystopian fiction may, in fact, reflect the dream of a fringe of anarcho-capitalists, now alarmingly close to real power, especially within the ascendant far right. But is it really a “Techno-Feudal” turn or something more fragmented and chaotic? To make sense of the forces at play—their ambitions, strategies, and contradictions—Reset DOC spoke with historian Quinn Slobodian, author of Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy.
  • Habermas: Europe Must Go Ahead with its Integration
    and Self-Defense
    Jürgen Habermas 3 April 2025
    Clearly there has never been seamless agreement among the leading national politicians of the West – and, more broadly, of the G7 countries – on their political perspectives; but they have always shared a background understanding of their affiliation to “the” West under the leadership of the United States. This political constellation has disintegrated with the most recent return to power of Donald Trump and the systemic change in the United States that this has set in motion, even if, formally speaking, the fate of NATO remains an open question for the time being. From a European perspective, this epochal break has far-reaching consequences – both for the further course and possible end of the war in Ukraine and for the need, willingness and ability of the European Union to find a redemptive response to the new situation. Otherwise, Europe will also be drawn into the maelstrom of the declining superpower.
  • Tulsa Confronts Its History: Reparations, 100 Years After the Massacre
    Matteo Muzio 20 March 2025
    Tulsa was the site of the 1921 massacre, the largest racially motivated mass killing in U.S. history. The attack led to the destruction of Greenwood, one of the very few affluent, majority-Black neighborhoods in the entire country at the time. Out of its 11,000 residents, some had accumulated wealth equivalent to a million dollars; six families even owned private planes. Greenwood was known as “Black Wall Street.” Today, under the leadership of Tulsa’s Democratic mayor Monroe Nichols – elected in 2024 – there are plans to rebuild the neighborhood and restore its legacy.
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