The Mission (1986)
Roland Joffé’s The Mission is a work that combines the visual power of grand historical cinema with a moral reflection of rare intensity. Set in 18th-century South America, the film…
Ireland’s Protests Show Strength for the EU, Despite Challenges
Ireland Faces Its Challenges, But Stands By Its Values Today, around 7,000 people gathered in Dublin city centre as tensions over immigration spilled onto O’Connell Street. On one side, an…
The Energy Knot
What if the real challenge wasn’t which energy to use, but who decides how to produce it and for whom? The engineer gazed out the window at the sunset. The…
Corsica 1755: The Startup
Pasquale Paoli launches a visionary political project: a representative government, an elected assembly, public education. A beta version of modern democracy. A glitch in the system of the Ancien Régime.…
Freeing Freedom
In recent years, the international political landscape has seen developments that call for serious reflection. Both in the United States and Russia, we’ve witnessed a growing concentration of power in…
From a distant galaxy, a warning for the present
Can a science fiction saga reveal the crisis of our democracies? In 2002, 25 years after the release of the first film, George Lucas returned to the Star Wars universe…
Divided and Vulnerable: Europe’s Radical Right and Sovereignists
In recent years, the temptation to embrace sovereignism and defend the national identity of individual European states has become a powerful proposition. But what identity do we truly want? That…
