Tom Orsag tells the story of how union power and solidarity broke WA's repressive anti-protest laws.
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Before you ask, yes—I’m actually okay. I can feel you hesitating, the way people do when they lower their expectations out of politeness. You ask this question as if it comes with a proviso, like something unfortunate but manageable is about to happen to your lunch. But I’ve been in therapy for a while now, and one of the things I’ve learned is that I’m not responsible for managing other people’s expectations—especially when those expectations were built around a different soda entirely.
I see the moment the question lands. You pause to scan the menu, even though it won’t change. I clock the quick glance toward the server, as if they might somehow intervene. Sometimes you whisper it to the table; sometimes you say it too loudly, like you’re warning everyone else. I stay where I am, patient and effervescent, while you work through your feelings that have nothing to do with me.
Whole regions of the world are now uninsurable, bringing radical uncertainty to the economy. How do we fix the problem?
- by Gavin Evans
She told me she’d be ten minutes late, which was fine. But when it was nearly twenty minutes I messaged – where are you? Shall I walk towards you? My daughter sent a picture of a bit of the state library she was in, people at desks etc. We’re here, is this where you are? […]
The Iran war shows that Trump is loving his military interventions — but they are never what he claims them to be.
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Men, guys, dudes, rejoice! After much research and testing, we have found the cure to the cursed male loneliness epidemic that is sweeping our country and our op-ed sections. We know you feel isolated. We know you can’t talk about your emotions. We know you’re looking for male role models in all the wrong YouTube algorithms. But fear not. We have found the solution to all your problems: doing outlandish science projects to prove or disprove commonplace myths.
Men these days are reverting to masculine ideals from yesteryear. They think real men have to be strong, tough, and misogynistic. Listen, boys, you don’t need big muscles, you don’t need creatine powder, and you certainly don’t need to get surgery to gain an extra few inches of height because you’d rather have metal implants in your legs than be 5′4″. All you really need is a curious mind, a pure heart, and military-level access to high-powered explosives. And also a seemingly endless supply of crash-test dummies.
Pitching isn’t bragging.
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An Intercept analysis finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations.
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Why Ilya Repin’s masterpiece of Ivan the Terrible, first banned in 1885, remains one of Russia’s most controversial paintings
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A prominent architect of decolonial theory, his diagnosis of European colonial ills is both penetrating and flawed
- by Federico Perelmuter
I am stuck in London courtesy of the terrorist policies of Donald Trump and his Israeli gang mates. I arrived at Heathrow on Saturday expecting to be home by last evening only to learn that all flights via Doha were indefinitely suspended. Big problem. I was lucky to find a hotel room at the airport…
These problems are like distant locations that you would hike to. And in the past, you would have to go on a journey. You can lay down trail markers that other people could follow, and you could make maps. AI tools are like taking a helicopter to drop you off at the site. You miss […]
We have some thoughts on the latest round of Doctor Who Christmas Special rumours: David Tennant, Billie Piper, filming schedules, and more.
Despite the pervasive uncertainties surrounding their assumptions, economic modellers frequently confine their expressions of uncertainty to those generated from within the very assumptions they have chosen to embed in their models — thereby creating a false sense of precision while ignoring deeper sources of ignorance. Econometrics offers a series of cautionary tales in which highly […]
Neoclassical economics is known for its illicit use of garbled language which hides and convolutes instead of explains … An interesting example is the chapter by Edward Prescott, titled ‘RBC Methodology and the Development of Aggregate Economic Theory’. Let’s first give the floor to him, mind that ‘leisure’ means ‘measured unemployment’: “What turned out to […]
It happened on a weekend. While representatives of the two nations were still negotiating, a fleet of aircraft carriers from one of the negotiating parties approached the territory of the other.
Acting with cold premeditation, early in the morning of that fateful day, the attacking forces did their deed causing devastating damages on the other side.
As it turned out, the negotiations were merely a cover, a deception, to fool de victims.
It was treachery.
But it worked.
The Doomsday Clock was effective Cold War theatre, but does it fail to convey the threat of today’s slowly unfolding existential crises?
The tendency to think of climate change as something in humanity’s future, as opposed to something that is unfolding now, in real time and with lethal consequences, has retreated a little in recent months.
Superficially, at least, David Rieff seems well placed to write a book about woke culture. For one thing, cultural criticism runs in the family: his parents were Susan Sontag and Philip Rieff – both intellectuals with a keen understanding of how subjectivities are shaped by social change. For another, his own work has often displayed an astute grasp of the fraught relationship between the historical, the political and the psychological.