Jihadism has not retreated – it has adapted. As spectacle gives way to decentralised networks, online grooming, and AI-assisted recruitment, radicalisation now moves faster than detection. John Mac Ghlionn warns that reduced visibility has bred complacency, even as violence becomes more sudden, local, and harder to trace. Mistaking silence for defeat, he argues, risks leaving Europe dangerously unprepared for jihadism’s most elusive phase yet.

As European leaders increasingly speak of war with Russia as inevitable, the gap between rhetoric and reality is widening. Josh Ferme examines NATO’s shifting tone, mounting hybrid threats, and the hard limits of Europe’s military, industrial, and social readiness – arguing that while the language of total war has returned, the societies meant to fight it are profoundly unprepared.

In an age shaped by algorithms, fragmentation, and moral diffusion, the philosophical novel is re-emerging as a form that refuses comfort or closure. Tracing a lineage from Lerner and Cusk to today, Dina-Perla Portnaar argues that fiction’s task is no longer to explain the world, but to implicate us in it – forcing judgment, discomfort, and responsibility back into view.