Editor in chief

Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
Reforming the Armed Forces of Ukraine
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 2 May 2026 The latest reform programme for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, announced […]
The pioneering neuroscience of Charles M. Lieber, Chinese government agent
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 2 May 2026 The trajectory of modern neuroscience has increasingly converged with the ambitions […]
Cryptology as a political instrument
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 1 May 2026 Cryptography is often imagined as a branch of mathematics, an austere […]
Mavka and the Spirit of Ukraine in Wartime
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 1 May 2026 The recent Ukrainian ballet Mavka emerges not merely as an artistic […]
Can large language models understand their users?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 1 May 2026 The aspiration to make machines understand us has always been more […]
War in Ukraine: is the Kremlin at a turning point?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 1 May 2026 The temptation, when confronted with a fresh statement from the Kremlin, […]
Europe’s Energy Independence: Myth, Policy and Reality
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 30 April 2026 Europe speaks often of “energy independence” — a phrase that carries […]
A resurgence of racism in the West
By Matthew Parish Thursday 30 April 2026 The suggestion that the West may be experiencing a resurgence of racism, and […]
The rise and fall of socialist realism
By Matthew Parish Thursday 30 April 2026 Socialist realism — once proclaimed as the triumphant artistic language of a new […]
Ukraine’s Lima system of electronic warfare
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 30 April 2026 In the evolving contest between offence and defence in modern warfare, […]



