Our culture valorises the big, coherent self: reading Robert Musil helps me embrace the beauty of my no-self existence
- by Mette Leonard Høeg
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By making Iran into a religious crusade, Trump’s spiritual advisers are making the war that much more difficult to end.
The post Far-Right Religious Leaders Advising Trump See Iran as an End Times Holy War appeared first on The Intercept.
Federal agents’ indiscriminate use of tear gases and “less-lethal” projectiles has become a mainstay of protest crackdowns.
The post DHS Launches Massive “Less Lethal” Chemical Weapons Buying Spree appeared first on The Intercept.
When the viral video cooled off, people thought the case against the 62-year-old would be dropped. Prosecutors doubled down.
The post Grandmother Faces Trial in Alabama for Wearing Penis Costume to No Kings Protest appeared first on The Intercept.
Journalist Sarah Posner on how the Christian right’s end times views are shaping U.S. foreign and domestic policies.
The post Trump’s Holy War Abroad and at Home appeared first on The Intercept.
Humanitarian journalism is a moral calling to document human suffering. But in practice, it’s an ethically murky undertaking
- by Cathy Otten
A cohort of 42 media organizations and press freedom advocates filed an amicus brief supporting court decisions against Trump’s attempts to censor the press and legal profession.
The post The Intercept’s Press Freedom Defense Fund Leads Cohort Fighting Trump’s Unconstitutional Media Attacks appeared first on The Intercept.
On Thursday, Sanders waded into the New York City race between progressives and socialists to replace Nydia Velázquez.
The post Bernie Sanders Backs Claire Valdez in NYC House Race Dividing Left and Progressives appeared first on The Intercept.
. Important and far-reaching questions indeed. Taxing the rich is not only a question of raising revenue or counteracting potentially increasing inflation. Inequality that undermines democracy is a dangerous thing. Without a conscious effort to counteract the inevitable forces driving our societies towards extreme income and wealth inequality, our societies fracture. It is crucial to […]
Plant roots don’t have a nervous system, yet can produce sophisticated responses. What does that say about intelligence?
- by Aeon Video
Delivering sincere compliments is a skill you can learn – and, done well, it’s an easy way to spread more joy in the world
- by Lisa Pavia-Higel
Econometricians are, of course, well aware of the importance of the relationship between the data and the underlying phenomena of interest. In the literature, this relationship is generally couched in terms of a data-generating process (DGP) … If we were to be able to perceive the true DGP in its entirety, we would essentially know […]
At the start of the U.S.–Israel war, Iranian Americans were split. Now a NIAC poll found that two-thirds want to see it end.
The post Iranian Americans Have Turned Against the War, New Poll Finds appeared first on The Intercept.
The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U.S. troops killed or wounded during the Iran war, resulting in undercounts.
The post “Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East appeared first on The Intercept.
The core reason for America and Europe’s decline (and, in a way, Japan’s) was the belief by our elites that money was the only thing which mattered. Money is the ability command resources from anyone who will, or must, sell. People who need to sell their labor or starve—Marx’s famous “whip of hunger.” Countries who […]
The rise and fall of the Medici’s ingeniously engineered ‘Garden of Wonders’: the Pratolino ‘proto-theme park’ in Tuscany
- by Aeon Video
The Supreme Court ruling has far-reaching, terrifying potential consequences — and not just for trans youth.
The post Conversion Therapy Gets Speech Protections — But Trans Kids’ Existence Gets No Protection at All appeared first on The Intercept.
Although I never submitted to it, I made several appearances in the now-defunct quote database on bash.org (QDB). I’m dealing with a broken keyboard now, and went to dig hard to find this classic in the Wayback machine. I thought I would put it back on the web: It was, in fact, horrble.
Unlearned historical lessons from Jacques-Louis David’s retrospective at the Louvre.
. Oh, to be back in those days when you were king of the dance floor! This song evokes sweet, unforgettable memories of fantastic summers in Biarritz and Hendaye back in the 1970s.
~by Sean Paul Kelley Headwinds: “a headwind blows against the direction of travel of an object . . . decreases the object’s speed and increases the time required to reach its destination.” Rip Tide: “A rip is a strong, localized, and narrow current of water that moves directly away from the shore, cutting through the […]