In Australia, we pride ourselves on our egalitarianism, yet now cannot even provide security of accommodation for everyone. How can this be, when older women who have lost their financial security from family break-up and illness, and even young women with small children, end up couch-surfing or sleeping in a car? This situation has come Continue reading »
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Anthony Albanese’s electoral success and the quiet competence of Labor’s administration has not gone unnoticed by the commentariat and political analysts here in the UK. A sea change from the noisy and brash Morrison days. UK Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer, is playing much the same game as Albanese did in the lead up to Continue reading »
While I was on holiday, I noticed a tweet that left me in no doubt about the subject of my first column back. It said: “I genuinely think the next generation will not forgive us for what we have done to them and the world they will have to live in.” I, too, fear they Continue reading »
A closer look at an old Eurozone banking crisis shows how Cyprus was (at least to a degree) used to get at Russia.
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Benjamin Ross Tilghman, professor emeritus of philosophy at Kansas State University, has died. Professor Tilghman worked in philosophy of art and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. He is the author of But is it Art? (1984), Wittgenstein, Ethics and Aesthetics (1991), An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (1993), The Expression of Emotion in the Visual Arts (2012), and Reflections on Aesthetic Judgment (2017), among other works. Professor Tilghman joined the faculty of Kansas State in 1967, retiring in 1994, and served as department head there from 1967 to 1980. Before that, he had taught at the University of Wyoming, Western State College of Colorado, and Reed College. He earned his PhD from the University of Washington and his BA and MA from Washington University in St. Louis. His colleague, Jim Hamilton, writes: Ben’s interest in the philosophy department and its students at Kansas State University was everlasting. He often contributed to a fund for scholarships for students, called the “Tilghman Excellence Fund,” set up in Ben’s name by several former students. And.
As Putin threatens the West at a commemoration of the decisive World War Two battle, Paul Niland says the Russian President's red lines are drawn in the sand
Why the conventional tools of the Phillips Curve, NAIRU, potential output, and money-supply growth are useless
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The word “unemployment” has a precise technical meaning, with origins in the industrial economy of post-Civil War Massachusetts (Card 2011); to be unemployed is to be seeking paid work but unable to find it at the prevailing wage. The concept was developed for administrative purposes at particular stages of capitalist development; it has legal and social-welfare implications, and the word is not applicable in other settings, such as peasant-agrarian or informal economies.
The former anchorwoman claimed that she has been calling for the F.B.I. to raid her house for weeks, but to no avail.
Washington's attempts to compel Arabs to hate Russia and China and love Israel while the latter continues to kill Palestinians and occupy their land, are failing miserably as new polls show.
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S-Q-U-I-S-H It’s hard enough to know what conservatives mean by socialism or woke. It may be harder still to know these days what they mean by conservative. Charlie Sykes takes a swag at The Bulwark. He’s not sure anymore, beacuse “what passes for ‘conservatism’ now, in right-wing media and MAGA circles, is not really what Edmund Burke (or J.S. Mill, Milton Friedman, Bill Buckley, George Will, or Charles Krauthammer) had in mind, is it?” What conservatism is and is not in his estimation (abbreviated here, see post for details): MAGA “Conservativism” is for a strong national defense… …except, of course, when it is not. MAGA “Conservatives” believe in fiscal restraint… …except when they are in the White House. “Conservatives” are devoted to the constitution, which must be strictly observed… … except when it needs to be scrapped in order to hold onto power.
Reality Winner’s veneration by the liberal establishment, and post-release promotion by the mainstream media, should, at the very least, raise serious questions about who or what ultimately benefited from her well-meaning, personally destructive actions.
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The tool Russian mercenaries used to kill a Syrian army deserter and others has become a violent meme, similar to the Punisher logo in the U.S.
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by Gary Gardner
Official Washington is all aflutter over whether Congress should raise the ceiling on U.S. government debt. But this is not the most pressing debt question our country faces.
To see why, step back and enlarge the frame. A new question emerges: Why would Congress create an artificial and wholly unnecessary debt crisis while ignoring a far more dangerous and decidedly real debt trap? I speak of our ballooning ecological debt,
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The fundamental right to vote has been a core value of Black politics since the colonial era — and so has the effort to suppress that vote right up to the present moment. In fact, the history of the suppression of Black voters is a first-rate horror story that as yet shows no sign of ending. While Democrats and progressives justifiably celebrated the humbling defeat of some of the most notorious election-denying Republican candidates in the 2022 midterms, the GOP campaign to quell and marginalize Black voters has only continued with an all-too-striking vigor. In 2023, attacks on voting rights are melding with the increasingly authoritarian thrust of a Republican Party ever more aligned with far-right extremists and outright white... Read more
Before the present owner, I was a Twitter Blue customer, because I always pay for software—to support its creators and help prevent it from disappearing, as so many great websites and platforms have done over the years. It wasn’t about the Twitter Blue pro features, to be honest, because they were few and inessential. For […]
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Governing is for losers GOP gotcha exercises this week in Congress are for pre-positioning ammunition for blaring 2024 TV ads (with fine-print footers) against Democrats for being un-American. The party of arrested development de-prioritizes governing. The MAGA-led House is on a tear. In the judiciary committee Wednesday, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) proposed that committee members recite the pledge of allegiance before meetings. Never mind that members do that at the opening of every session. He wants Democrats on record voting not to a second time. An hour-long debate ensued with Democrats snidely pushing back on whether “insurrectionists” on the committee could lead the pledge. Ultimately, Democrats voted with Republicans for supplemental performative patriotism. HORRORS! The U.S. House voted Wednesday on a resolution “denouncing the horrors of socialism.” That’s it. The rest is boilerplate. On the floor, Republicans railed against socialism’s evils that they did not enumerate in H. Res. 83. The conservative base programmed for a century or more to view the nine-letter word as a four-letter word, Republicans did not need to.
Revd Joe Haward reflects on how hardliners in the Church are stifling progress on LGBTQ+ rights – but homophobia and transphobia are not confined to evangelical congregations
We’re increasingly comfortable with the idea of a book in virtual rather than physical form, but what happens when the content disappears too? Inevitably, we’re left looking at the frame around it. The point about the invisible book is that it suddenly makes other things visible.
Namwali Serpell’s aesthetic preference is to break a pattern almost before she has established it, to load, aim and cock a symbol but not pull the trigger. In The Furrows, the nexus between disaster, truth-telling and not being believed, though hinted at strongly, doesn’t manifest itself.
In our own time, Grosz’s great theme – the domestic horror show of bourgeoisie – seems to have vanished as a subject, or perhaps it’s just got better at camouflage. But once you’ve seen Grosz’s types, they start popping up everywhere. Perry Anderson described Trump’s entourage of bankers, businessmen and generals as ‘a cabinet out of George Grosz’.
If you can carve your own path to the grave these days, it is because grand narratives have crumbled and can no longer constrain you. Journeys are no longer communal but self-tailored, more like hitchhiking than a coach tour. They are no longer mass products but for the most part embarked on alone. The world has ceased to be story-shaped, which means that you can make your life up as you go along. You can own it, just as you can own a boutique.
Centimetre RulerI wanted to stop getting high but you know what they say no sobrietyin the first year of a big life change I think I’m recalling that right I think I...
Cezanne’s private puzzling – just how should masses of lemon and lead white converse? – slips into provocative teasing. No, that plate on the right could hardly have perched in that way on a three-dimensional kitchen table, and yes, the fruit on it perform a balancing act that seems outright miraculous. But painters have always reserved the right to collage their observations, and Cezanne did so with particular vehemence.