The letters page from London Review of Books Vol. 46 No. 4 (Friday 09 February 2024)
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Trump’s misdeeds have been amply documented through two impeachment proceedings, extensive congressional investigations, Mueller’s final report and endless news coverage. Perhaps the liberal principle of ‘innocent until proven guilty’ is at work. If so, it is having distinctly illiberal effects.
Table of contents from London Review of Books Vol. 46 No. 4 (Friday 09 February 2024)
A version of ‘Solo de lune’ by Jules LaforgueI smoke, spread outBeneath the evening sky on the top deckOf a careering stagecoach, every boneIn my body rattling, jangling – but my...
12 a.m. This is not working out as planned.
12:01 a.m. You toss aside earlier goals; the new goal is to wind this thing up as soon as possible or at least by daybreak.
12:05 a.m. You put on your go-to attire: comfortable and able to absorb sweat and other bodily fluids.
12:30 a.m. It’d be easier to focus if the space around you wasn’t so cluttered.
1 a.m. Prep books you don’t have the energy to read needle you.
1:10 a.m. A little bit of alcohol wouldn’t go amiss, but you don’t dare.
3 a.m. If only you could get some sleep, this might actually come together.
3:15 a.m. Bleary-eyed and desperate, you call your mother. She doesn’t answer.
3:20 a.m. The support group you joined doesn’t respond to your texts; it’s just you and your endurance.
3:30 a.m. You swig down an extra-large tea or coffee; you can’t tell the difference anymore.
3:45 a.m. Uh-oh, you don’t have time to go to the bathroom.
A work of art is what it is, even more than what it says. The only real way of seeing how Hamlet differs from Henry is to perceive the great difference in the plays that hold them, a mature tragedy and an early history.
What was this Society for which Pope Paul III provided a charter? It was not a religious order, though it is often styled as such. Its members were neither monks nor friars. Its self-descriptor as a Societas aligned it with the ‘companies’ or devotional confraternities of priests and laity in late medieval Italy.
David Sirota speaks with researcher Zach Rausch about the myriad ways modern technology is rewiring childhood development.
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As we approach the fortieth anniversary of the miners’ strike, Channel 4 has delivered a groundbreaking three-part documentary: Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle for Britain. As the filmmakers state, this was a watershed of the post-war era — an event that wounded and changed Britain forever. The series reveals the painful realities and traumatic divisions […]
Over the last few years, the RBA has been emphatically denying that price gouging from corporations with significant market power has been driving the movements in the inflation rate. They knew that if they conceded that reality then there would be no justification for the 11 interest rate hikes they have introduced since May 2022.…
Union members at the Foundation for Young Australians across the country joined the Global Strike for Gaza, demanding their employer make a statement of solidarity with Palestine.
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I don’t think he’s going to survive this: He doesn’t seem to know which party he’s in. And they don’t want this. They want Emperor Donald Trump.
How the lucrative market could spark conservation.
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Hall previously liked a string of tweets praising 'rivers of blood' MP Enoch Powell and branding the capital "Londonistan" under Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan.
The parent company of the Daily Northwestern backed down after days of backlash and promises to boycott from students, faculty, and alumni.
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In his newsletter today, Dan Pfeiffer discusses the political ramifications of the DC Circuit’s ruling yesterday that Trump is not entitled to immunity for his crimes. (You can subscribe at the link.) An excerpt: If there is one thing we know about Donald Trump it’s that he never lets anything go. He still takes time at his rallies to complain about the Mueller investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia. I know our collective sense of time might be warped, but that investigation began SEVEN years ago. Even if the Supreme Court rules against Trump or refuses to take up his appeal, he is never going to stop talking about why he should be immune from prosecution. Each missive is more unhinged than the last. Here’s what he posted on Truth Social (via an account that reposts his “Truths” to Twitter): This reads like a bomb threat from a particularly illiterate person at the end of a coke binge. As a general rule, we should amend the Constitution to bar people who communicate in all caps from the presidency. It’s truly disqualifying.