Editor in chief

Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
The Death of Modernism
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Modernism was a child of the twentieth century’s belief in progress. It was an artistic […]
Heroism
By Matthew Parish It comes to us in photographs, not noise: A man half-turned, his coat blown by the blast, […]
The Twenty-Eight Points
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The search for a political settlement to the war in Ukraine has given rise to […]
Elon Musk’s Vision of an Age in which Work Becomes Optional
By Matthew Parish Elon Musk has frequently suggested that the long-term trajectory of artificial intelligence is to make traditional labour […]
Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing
By Matthew Parish The simultaneous emergence of advanced artificial intelligence and quantum computing stands as one of the most potentially […]
Training the Drone Operator
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor As Ukraine has expanded her use of unmanned aerial vehicles from improvised quadcopters to complex, […]
A History of Ukrainian Nationalism
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Ukrainian nationalism is a phenomenon that evolved over many centuries from a loose sense of […]
Carving Up the Russian Empire into the Soviet Socialist Republics
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917, followed by the civil war that ensued, […]
Today’s peace talks in Kyiv
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor In the second half of November 2025, Kyiv has become the locus of renewed diplomatic […]
Why President Donald Trump Is Against BRICS
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The second Trump presidency has revived a familiar style of muscular rhetoric towards countries perceived […]



