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The Baroque buildings in Fulda are well worth a detour from the highway but, unfortunately, it was not the castle or cathedral that put the small town in Hessen on the world map; it ended up there because of ’The Fulda Gap’ – a number of passes in the hilly countryside, only a short distance…

Enveckasförsvar (one week’s defence) was one of the words in the Language Board’s new word list last year. It came from a SvenskaDagbladet interview with Supreme Commander Sverker Goranson (2 January, 2013), where he made ??it clear that Sweden can defend itself against a limited attack in one place for a week. ”Our resources are…

Signals intelligence and other monitoring constitute a world of various shades of grey. It is equally futile to be entirely for or against it, as it is to be for or against taxation. Being resigned does not work, but one must always take a position based on objectives, scope and methodology. Saying yes to everything…

Det är ingen ände på allt lovvärt som ska åstadkommas med hjälp av mer högskoleutbildning. Rikspolitiker hoppas att det ska rusta Sverige för globaliseringens prövningar (och snygga till arbetslöshetsstatistiken). Lokalpolitiker vill få fart på tillväxten i bygden och locka ungdomen att bo kvar.

There is no end to what can be achieved through more higher education. National politicians hope that it will prepare Sweden for the trials of globalisation (and tidy up the unemployment statistics).

In an era of high-tech, spectacles and political manoeuvring, it may be worth considering the low-tech, everyday events and the future course of events. In 1821, the French carpenter, Emile Verrière, had an idea that – if you consider the indirect effects – came to influence the world to such an extent that is difficult…

In conjunction with the exhibition Figurations at Edsvik’s art gallery in Sollentuna in 2009, there started a long, bitter, and in many places confused, art debate in our cultural pages and blogs.

In conjunction with the exhibition Figurations at Edsvik’s art gallery in Sollentuna in 2009, there started a long, bitter, and in many places confused, art debate in our cultural pages and blogs.

We have the very readable theme of migration in this issue, but it strikes me, as I put the finishing touches to it, that there is a lack of perspective on the issue, not only here but also in all contexts, and this is the specific Swedish conditions.

The alternative movement in Sweden became a green movement that devoted more attention to birds and kilowatt-hours than human emancipation.

On August 30 this year, Education Minister Jan Bjorklund in DN Debate wrote about the government’s forthcoming effort on ’elite research’. The autumn budget and research propositions specifically set out the financial framework and strategies behind this multi-billion kronor venture, whose purpose it is to ”sift out a Swedish researcher elite”.

Blaise Pascal was certainly not the first to reflect on the theme of this issue of Axess: the relationship between religion, science and atheism.

That the proponents of conservative values have, in recent decades, experienced strong headwinds, is due to the state-regulated low interest rate policy that has encouraged citizens’ consumption and borrowing, rather than the old virtues such as thrift and diligence.

It is undeniably amazing, the power with which the theories of social and cultural constructions have taken hold in our time. Not only in universities, but also among bourgeois and left-wing opinion makers, who routinely maintain various phenomena to be only structures: sex, art, storytelling, insanity – you name it!

When Angela Merkel and David Cameron last winter found that the multicultural project had failed, they were not exactly first ’on the ball’. Already in the late 1990s, published political scientist Susan Moller Okin had written the essay ”Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?” in Boston Review.

One need not aspire to be a visionary to argue that the 2010s will entail revolutionary changes in the media, perhaps comparable to those at the turn of the last century or some fifty years later.