The tendency to think of climate change as something in humanity’s future, as opposed to something that is unfolding now, in real time and with lethal consequences, has retreated a little in recent months.
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Superficially, at least, David Rieff seems well placed to write a book about woke culture. For one thing, cultural criticism runs in the family: his parents were Susan Sontag and Philip Rieff – both intellectuals with a keen understanding of how subjectivities are shaped by social change. For another, his own work has often displayed an astute grasp of the fraught relationship between the historical, the political and the psychological.
My sense is that political cartoonists are finding it pretty difficult to encapsulate the events of the last two weeks in our sunburnt country girt by sea. Not because they are so depressing: a good cartoonist can always wring dark humour from a tragedy. But because they are so clearly self-satirising.
I thank Alessandra Panizza for taking the time to review Brave New Wild (Jan-Feb), and for her forthright defence of an alternative model of social and scientific development, but her review contains a number of claims (or implications) that misconstrue my argument.
The US and Israel claim to have killed Khameini. Iran says they missed. Either way it doesn’t matter much, the Iranian response of hitting US bases and Israel hasn’t been effected. They’ve also declared the Straits of Hormuz closed. If Khameini was killed, he is far more likely to be replaced by hawk than a […]
Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts. Nothing on the new Iran war, I’ll have a post up on that soon.
Janet Fielding on returning to film a mini-episode of Doctor Who that serves as a "sequel" to her final story, "Resurrection of the Daleks."
The killing of drug cartel kingpin El Mencho has led to retaliatory violence in Mexico — much of it carried out with American-made guns.
The post Made-in-America Guns Are Fueling Death and Destruction in Mexico appeared first on The Intercept.
. Det finns ju numera väldigt många ‘chefsekonomer’ på tankesmedjor och banker som valsar runt i medierna — men ingen så väl värd att lyssna på som Max Jerneck. I stället för det vanliga tyckmyckentrutade pladdret från televisionens och dagstidningarnas ekonomiredaktioner har vi här någon som faktiskt gör sig mödan att på djupet analysera saker […]
Between burnout and bore-out, there lies an optimal level of stress that can motivate you and enhance your performance
- Video by University of the Netherlands
When our self-respect, status and social identity are threatened, we ought to defend ourselves and shame our wrongdoers
- by James Edgar Lim
Virtually everything you think you know about psychopathy has been thoroughly debunked. Why does this zombie idea live on?
- by Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen
~by Sean Paul Kelley Couple of random notes this Friday morning, mostly economics related, some silver news and my personal reaction to portions of the discusssion in Ian’s “Is Virtue An Advantage Or Disadvantage For Societies?” post. First, econonomics. It looks more and more like we are heading into a 2008-style credit crisis/crunch. Don’t believe […]
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February 27th, 2026: TORONTO IS STILL WET AND MY COMPL . A classic textbook example of the ‘Table 2 Fallacy’ in economics arises when estimating the return to education and misinterpreting regression coefficients. Suppose an economist wishes to estimate the causal effect of an additional year of schooling on earnings and estimates If the estimated coefficient is small and statistically insignificant, the economist might conclude […]
ICE agents pretended to be New York Police Department officers to get into Columbia housing, a member of the New York city council said. The post Zohran Mamdani Kept Columbia Student in New York — Then Phoned With Trump to Secure Her Release appeared first on The Intercept. A memoir interwoven with historical research that might leave you wondering if anything really changes in these United States.
In pursuit of defeating death, Alan has dedicated his life to cryonics. He hopes to be defrosted together with his wife - by Aeon Video
Burhan Sönmez, now the president of PEN International, was a rising human rights lawyer in Turkey. A brutal assault nearly killed him – and propelled him to a life in literature - by Kaya Genç The Supreme Court ruled Trump’s tariffs illegal. Now comes the messy question: Who will pay — and who gets paid back?
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