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Sat, 26/04/2025 - 21:40

In the first of a series of virtual events on the most pressing issues emerging from the second Trump administration, Fintan O’Toole hosts Sherrilyn Ifill, Pamela Karlan, and Laurence H. Tribe for a conversation on corruption and the rule of law. You may view all available recordings in this series on this page.

The post Constitutional Crises appeared first on The New York Review of Books.

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Sat, 26/04/2025 - 21:26
Political philosophers are criticised for their idealism, but when it comes to immigration they try to be ‘realistic’. Their aspiration to ‘realism’ often leads to nationalism (which I have analysed elsewhere as an implicit but heavy bias), but I still don’t understand why they aspire to realism on this issue. Philosophers have neither voters to […]
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Sat, 26/04/2025 - 02:07

Fascist Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir is set to appear on April 25 at the home of a Brooklyn businessman and Jewish power broker named Harry Adjmi, according to a private invitation.  The Grayzone has obtained a private invitation to a “welcoming” party for Itamar Ben-Gvir, a messianic settler who has been convicted in a Jerusalem court of abetting a terrorist organization. The party will be held at the home of Harry Adjmi, a Brooklyn-based businessman and influential […]

The post Ben Gvir to promote Gaza starvation plan at private Brooklyn ‘welcoming’ brunch first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Ben Gvir to promote Gaza starvation plan at private Brooklyn ‘welcoming’ brunch appeared first on The Grayzone.

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Sat, 26/04/2025 - 01:12
A new ‘poem song’ with the fab Catenary Wires is out today: Every Song on the Radio Reminds Me of You. We’ve even made an accompanying video, in which I do some very good walking around with a radio, plus knob twiddling. It’s from our forthcoming album, ‘Sounds Made by Humans’ which comes out on 9…
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Fri, 25/04/2025 - 20:06
This is the second in a very occasional series of posts discussing the following proposition: in the English-speaking world, the last 50 years has seen a dramatic increase in the quantity and quality of text and visual mass media intended for children. The first post, on kids’ animated cartoons, is here. As noted in that […]
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Fri, 25/04/2025 - 12:34
Trump Has Made It Impossible For America To Resist China

For a long time I thought the new world order would be a perverse mirror of the Cold War: two blocs facing off, periphery war, minimal trade between them (There was some trade, mostly in commodities.) The difference this time would be that the US was leading the weaker block, not the stronger.

Trump has made this very unlikely. His tariffs and threats have broken the unanimity of the alliance and vassal circle. The EU is in China right now seeking to cut a trade deal with the possible of end of many sanctions on the table. Canada’s presumptive PM has said the old order is dead. When China cut off US LNG who stepped into the gap? Australia and Canada. Even Japan, the most loyal of vassals, has noted that you can’t make a deal with Trump, because blackmailers always come back for more.