Umut Özkırımlı
Umut Özkırımlı is a senior research fellow at IBEI (Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals) and a professor at Blanquerna, Ramon Llull University. He is the author of the recently published Cancelled: The Left Way Back From Woke (Polity, 2023). Find him online at @UOzkirimli and umutozkirimli.com
The “shameless disrespect” of Judith Butler
The celebrated academic is too ideological to understand and accept different opinions
The renegade progressives
Has the University and College Union discovered freedom of speech?
Cancel culture in academia
Umut Özkırımlı in conversation with Laura Favaro
Luxury politics and the narcissistic left
Commodification with a woke twist
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants