The Unending Search for Racism
The debate about Rickard Andersson’s killing spree has been informed by an unhealthy discourse about race and immigration in Sweden.
Dan Korn
· 7 min read
Sweden
A collection of 13 posts
Justice in Stockholm
Thirty-four years after the massacre of political prisoners in Iran, the conviction of Hamid Noury in Sweden has been a victory for accountability and for the truth.
Roya Hakakian
· 19 min read
A Life Worthwhile
The dignity that comes with a job is more important than the salary.
Magnus Henrekson
· 11 min read
Sweden Has Resisted a Lockdown. But That Doesn't Make it a Bastion of Liberty
Its choice of a uniquely lax approach to the pandemic should not be mistaken for a sudden turn toward individual freedom.
Paulina Neuding
· 6 min read
Abandoning Malmö to Its Criminals
The explosion happened three blocks away, but the sound had become so familiar that I went back to sleep without even getting out of bed to check on my twins.
Henrik Jönsson
· 6 min read
Self-Harm Versus the Greater Good: Greta Thunberg and Child Activism
A workplace strike shows company owners and management that workers are able to harm them economically. A school strike, on the other hand, constitutes a form of self-harm, undertaken to attract adult attention.
Paulina Neuding
· 7 min read
Denmark's Blaspheming Mother
Immigration, Islamism and integration are salient issues even in the happiest place on earth.
Andy Ngo
· 9 min read
Europe's New Beggars
An elite discourse condones destructive behavior and reinterprets a denigrating hand-to-mouth existence as an alternative lifestyle
Johan Wennström
· 9 min read
The Attractions of the Clan—An Interview with Mark Weiner
My concern is that the left here is closing itself off, and that its resistance to thinking about cultural differences is a progressive parallel to right-wing climate change denial and that it could eventually eat it intellectually from inside.
Paulina Neuding and Mark S. Weiner
· 13 min read
How Sweden's Blind Altruism Is Harming Migrants
In terms of culture, Afghanistan is the opposite of Sweden.
Mustafa Panshiri
· 11 min read
'Post-Truth' and the Decline of Swedish Education
Sweden has gone the farthest toward abandoning a knowledge-based core curriculum and a pedagogy in which students internalize and learn to apply knowledge under the teacher’s instruction and supervision.
Magnus Henrekson and Johan Wennström
· 8 min read
Sweden's General Election Turmoil
Sweden used to be at the top of many international rankings of equality and affluence, but has slipped in recent years.
Paulina Neuding
· 5 min read
Sweden's Sexual Assault Crisis Presents a Feminist Paradox
Such levels of gang violence are without parallel in Sweden’s modern history. And with police busy dealing with gang murders and shootings, rape victims wait for justice.
Paulina Neuding
· 8 min read