Turkey, Journalism and Erdoğan

The following is a Q and A between Luke Sheehan and Deniz Güngör. Can you summarize the political crisis in Turkey?  First, I must say that in Turkey, a person must have a university diploma to be eligible to run for president. After the main opposition CHP’s Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu announced his … Read more

Podcast: Patrick Cockburn on Syria and Ukraine

Are the Eurocrats and their allies most delusional about the topics they profess to find most urgent? Or are they just setting out to delude the rest of us? This was Ursula Von Der Leyen speaking at the 9th Brussels Conference on Syria, on Saint Patrick’s Day last: The agreement between the central authorities and … Read more

HIT IT: Hustling and the Ivory Tower with Max McGuinness

In our latest podcast episode Luke Sheehan interviews his friend, Dr. Max McGuinness. Max McGuinness is a Teaching Fellow in French at Trinity College Dublin. His first book, published this Spring by Liverpool University Press, is Hustlers in the Ivory Tower: Press and Modernism from Mallarmé to Proust, which explores how French modernist writers used … Read more