High Standards
The Commission for New and Old Art.
21 January 2026
The Commission for New and Old Art.
On the protests in Iran.
On the global cannabis trade.
Europeanizing the war.
The government of Berlin.
Kaja Kallas and the Atlanticist consensus.
Meritocracy à l’envers.
The filmmaking of Alice Diop.
Resisting the New Cold War.
Romila Thapar’s ‘Gazing Eastwards’.
G.M. Tamás (1948-2023).
Denmark’s extreme centre.
Erdoğan’s regime in crisis.
George Saunders’s America.
Gaza and censorship.
On Rachel Cusk.
Fredric Jameson (1934-2024).
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