On July 13, after Thomas Matthew Crooks fired multiple shots at Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the world saw the difference between presence of mind and absence of mind. Trump, who was shot in the right ear, gave an extraordinary demonstration of the first of these qualities. He flinched as he felt the bullet. […]
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Sorry, everybody, I hate to be that guy, but what’s going on with the apocalypse orgy? It’s happening, right? Do we have any more details about it, or are we just going into this whole doomsday orgy thing completely off the cuff?
Seriously, what are the logistics behind the apocalypse orgy?
Look, I know everyone’s in favor of having one massive, horrifying doomsday orgy in the last precious moments before our planet becomes completely uninhabitable. But I just think that we, as a group, have to be realistic and realize that a truly great doomsday orgy isn’t going to happen overnight. In science fiction, it always looks so easy: every time a society like ours is about to face a mass extinction, they descend, almost by magic, into a writhing orgy where seas of gyrating bodies fill the streets in a desperate attempt to numb their existential dread with the temporary comforts of thrusting flesh and undulating genitalia.
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Last week, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza strip is unlawful. It also found Israel guilty of violating the prohibition on racial segregation and apartheid. Even though this merely confirms what has already been asserted for decades by Palestinian civil society, human […]
Political Economy Seminar
Class, Party, and American Politics in 2024
Speaker: Matthew Karp, Princeton University
Time and date: Friday, 2 August 2024, 4-5:30 pm
Location: A02 Social Sciences Building, Room 650, The University of Sydney
Abstract: It may be the most pervasive question in twenty-first century politics, all across the post-industrial world: Why have so many working-class voters, the backbone of socialist and progressive struggles across the twentieth century, turned away from parties of the left? Everyone from Thomas Piketty to J.D. Vance seems to have weighed in, but the debate rages on. This talk explores the emergence of what some call “class dealignment” in the United States, focusing especially on the last two decades, and evaluating the current shape of both the Republican and Democratic political coalitions. Drawing on my work with the Center for Working Class Politics, I argue that dealignment represents an existential crisis for the American left and suggest some ways left-wing politicians might push back against these macro trends.
The 17th Annual E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Lecture
Dollar Hegemony as Law-Making Power, or How the Dollar Shapes the Rules of Global Capitalism
Speaker: Ntina Tzouvala (ANU)
Date and time: Thursday 12 September, doors open 5:30 pm, lecture 6-8 pm
Location: Social Sciences Building A02, Lecture Theatre 200, University of Sydney
Registrations: https://events.humanitix.com/17th-annual-wheelwright-lecture
Lecture abstract
