Houses and for Whom to (Re)Build Them?
In times of war, Ukraine goes through tremendous destruction and upheaval. These events catalyze problems giving the “green light” to those reforms that would otherwise cause public resistance. The spiral of debt dependence, economic instability, and environmental challenges of an export-oriented economy, “optimization” of social expenditures, destruction and shortage of housing and infrastructure, reduction of […]
Military insubordination has saved the world from nuclear war several times. An interview with Hugh Gusterson
Hugh Gusterson is a British-American anthropologist and a professor at the University of British Columbia. Gusterson started his career with a two-year study of the personnel of the US nuclear arms laboratory in the mid-nineties. Since this work, he has continued writing for and about atomic scientists. Besides, Gusterson investigates contradictory social roles and objects […]
Will education save the world?
This article was written as part of the work of the economic department of Center for Social and Labor Research. “People get, for example, a degree in law, and then get a job at McDonalds. But they could have worked there before receiving their diploma, and the country could have saved 800 hryvnias on them.” […]
Nietzsche and Christ
23 November 2008Trinity College Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market-place, and cried incessantly: ‘I seek God! I seek God… Whither is God?’, he cried. ‘I will tell you. We have killed him – you and I. All of us are his murderers… God is […]
About “Russian” trace in Odessa events
Andrey Ishchenko A tragic death, which took place on April 17 in Odessa, of Maksim Chaika, a right-wing football fan and one of the leaders of a radical nationalist organization “SICH”, has immediately lead to heated discussions on the Internet. Whereas everything is clear for the closest companions of the killed: “the white warrior” had […]
