politics

Farage, Brexit and the anti-Enlightenment

Article

Dieuwertje Schipper

17/01/2019

13 minutes to read

After Brexit, we can see what a success Farage's campaign has been. By talking about the right issues during crises, Farage appealed to a certain population in the UK. His active online campaign was also a major contributing factor in his success.

Is Google politically biased?

Article

Tunde Farago

07/03/2019

9 minutes to read

In this article, the issue of political bias is analyzed in relation to the algorithms behind the Google search engine.

The AfD white men Advent calendar

Article

Nataliia Vdovychenko

20/12/2018

5 minutes to read

AfD (Alternative für Deutschland), the German far-right party, issued a white men Advent campaign. The political movement uses this Advent calendar to promote their new right ideology and Euroscepticism.

Slavic Union is on the rise in Eastern Europe

Article

Nataliia Vdovychenko

22/03/2019

20 minutes to read

Much of the information about Alt-Right nowadays comes from 'the West'. This is not very accurate, because the movement is strong and growing in Eastern Europe. This article describes the concept of Slavia and why we should know about it.

How WeChat was used in the 2018 elections in The Hague

Column

Linmin Zheng

24/01/2019

6 minutes to read

This article analyzes the Chinees dimension of the 2018 election in The Hague, The Netherlands. On the basis of concrete data Linmin Zheng argues that even local politics have become translocal.

The Celebrate Freedom Rally and the betrayal of arts leaders in the United States

Column

Kevin Doyle

09/03/2018

7 minutes to read

Kevin Doyle argues that if what little remains of a public funding system for the arts and culture in the US is to be preserved, then the arts leaders of the United States should awaken themselves.

Kennedy Center Coup d'état: Trump, The Celebrate Freedom Concert and the state of the arts

Working paper

Kevin Doyle

09/03/2018

Derision and ridicule have been key ingredients in the opposition to Donald Trump. If Americans can save the NEA and NEH, we need to evolve and employ different strategies, says Kevin Doyle, in this critical chronicle.

Front National

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Marine Le Pen has been a member of Front National since she was eighteen years old. In 2011, Marine Le Pen became president of the party. Her self-proclaimed aim is to 'de-radicalize' the party. But is this only a metapolitical claim, or reality?