Plain People of Crooked Timber: can’t see why you’re drafting us in here so often after leaving us out in the cold for five years or whatever, we are busy people with our own lives and so on. Me: but I love you and you’re the best! Plain People of Crooked Timber: well if you’re […]
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David Sirota talks with the man whose legislative successes prompted a corporate backlash and Lewis Powell’s infamous memo.
Readers interested in questions about masculinities, men's gender practices and the continuing problems of inequality and injustice in gender relations: I can recommend this just-published analysis of how the concept of hegemonic masculinity arose, and how it developed. It's based on thorough scholarship and unrivalled knowledge of the field.
James W. Messerschmidt and Tristan Bridges, Legitimation as linchpin: On Raewyn Connell’s changing conceptualization of ‘hegemonic masculinity’, International Review of Sociology, published online 4 September 2024, at https://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2024.238861
One of the issues that some on the Left raise when the topic ‘degrowth’ enters the conversation relates to the sense of elitism from the wealthy nations, which can now indulge in a bit of non-material aspiration amidst the large houses, two-or-three car garages, speed boats, lycra-clad journeys to coffee shops on $10,000 bicycles designed…
IBM employees questioned the company’s ties to the Israeli military. CEO Arvind Krishna’s answer raised even more concerns.
The post IBM CEO: We Listen to What Israel and Saudi Arabia Consider “Correct Behavior” appeared first on The Intercept.
Gina Rinehart’s favorite play thing, Opposition leader Peter Dutton, has come out strongly to defend his decision to appoint the ghost of former PM, Bob Menzies, to head up the NSW Liberal party. ”The fact that Bob has been dead... Read More ›
The deepest extract from the middle layer of the Earth offers a wonderland of insights.
The post The First Good Glimpse of the Earth’s Mantle appeared first on Nautilus.
Israeli citizens’ demand to bring home an estimated 100 Israeli hostages still held captive by Hamas is assumed to depend on a Gaza ceasefire which would include a Palestinian prisoner release. By contrast, Palestinian citizens’ “bring them home!” cry concerns the estimated 10,000 Palestinian prisoners, who are also hostages in Israeli jails, including as many Continue reading »
You never see the dehumanisation of Palestinians in Western society exhibited so clearly as when something bad happens to Israelis during the genocidal assault on Gaza. Western officials are publicly weeping about six dead Israeli hostages, including one Israeli-American, who the IDF says were recently killed by Hamas. Whoever’s been writing Joe Biden’s press releases Continue reading »
Nicholas Ross Smith, from the University of Canterbury, argues that the temptation to essentialise China as simply being a Xi-led CCP monolith that will stop at nothing to re-integrate Taiwan and seek global domination overlooks the complexity of domestic politics in China. Basing policy on a simple caricature of China is a recipe for disaster. Continue reading »
A recent, comprehensive social-media interview has provided an acute reminder of how hard it now is to imagine certain flagship, Western current affairs programs drowning their cherished war-drums in a lead weighted bag and applying themselves to investigating pivotal geopolitical challenges with intelligent thoroughness (as Four Corners can still manage (see:Inside Iran: The proxy war Continue reading »
Prof Wang Gungwu, who is now 94, is an historian without equal. When someone alerted me that he would be giving an online lecture at HELP University in Kuala Lumpur on 10 August, I lost no time in signing up for a seat at the university’s Damansara auditorium. Well before the present US-China tensions, Prof Continue reading »
Peter Hehir, in his article “Good science has no bias”, asserts that climate scientists should not, and will not, participate in the climate debate. Before reviewing Peter’s reasoning, it would be helpful to outline the current situation. Climate scientists are overwhelmingly in agreement that atmospheric pollution from the emission of greenhouse gases is the prime Continue reading »
Netanyahu has stated repeatedly that these corridors will stay in Israeli
military control and that “ Israel will not under any circumstances leave the Philadelphi corridor nor the Netzarim axis...these are strategic principles, both militarily and politically.” Continue reading »
The fall of Sheikh Hasina’s government in Bangladesh has been described as a strategic loss for India and a potential gain for China. But various obstacles may hinder China from gaining greater influence in the region. Political instability, economic challenges, and India’s enduring importance to Bangladesh will limit the extent of China’s influential inroads. The Continue reading »