In the wake of the latest American strike against Iran, many commentators have once again revived familiar narratives about a supposed “clash…
Following public remarks by former U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Michael Murphy, a political storm erupted across both the Bosniak political…
In Podgorica, a new edition of Špiro Kulišić’s booklet On the Ethnogenesis of the Montenegrins has been published by the Dukljan Academy…
For an outside reader, Bosnia and Herzegovina is often formally described as a sovereign state. In practice, however, it operates within a…
One of the most repellent forms of that old-new popular thinking—now once again spreading with mounting intensity across Western societies since the…
At the recently held “TradFest” in Zagreb—where, in the long-established manner of Croatian nationalism, ideas are first declared necessary and only afterwards…
There are moments in public discourse that do not surprise by their content—because they belong to well-established ideological patterns of the darker…
One of the most widespread forms of intellectual laziness—still sold globally as a mark of moral sophistication—is the tendency to place the…
A wave of public outrage swept through Sarajevo following the two-day “Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit,” held on March 24–25,…
To begin with, let me recount an old Soviet, Cold War–era joke about America. A Russian and an American are seated side…
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