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I enjoyed reading your article “Man, Superman, Super Mario,” a Nietzschean study of the early Mario Brothers games. I found myself especially compelled by your argument that the raccoon suit represents the Übermensch form of the Mario character.

However, your paper is not even remotely publishable unless you add another three thousand words discussing Benderman’s brilliant argument from his book Super Marxio Brothers (2007) about how the plumber protagonists symbolize the exploitation of the proletariat.

Also, after listening to the first four episodes of a seventeen-hour WNYC podcast on the history of fonts, I insist that all authors format papers in Helvetica Neue.

What is the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), what are its sources of funding, and why does it so consistently advocate for positions favourable to the United States and the weapons industry? Follow the money trail. Throwing something at the T.V. could become an expensive habit. Yet how often I feel like it, especially so Continue reading »

The Australian government must reduce indigenous incarceration and stop subsidising fossil fuels. The Australian government’s failure to uphold the rights of First Nations people and asylum seekers harms the government’s credibility to promote human rights in the region, Human Rights Watch said yesterday in its World Report 2023. Similarly, the government’s continued support for fossil Continue reading »

Pell was an ideological warrior that resisted the changes of liberal society and its tolerance for diversity and individualism. Cardinal George Pell died as he lived, a fierce defender of the Catholic church and of conservative Catholicism. He had an agenda and knew how to achieve it. Striding from the back blocks of Ballarat to Continue reading »

At the heart of Prince Harry’s latest salvo in the trans-Atlantic royal family breakdown, now clearly beyond repair, is his ultimate target – the media-Palace relationship which has torn his family apart and which in its public disintegration now threatens the monarchy itself. The unseemly family dysfunction, institutional racism or ‘unconscious bias’ in the descriptor Continue reading »

We see a tendency to blame individuals for the crisis in our politics across the AUKUS nations. This is facile. Donald Trump did not create the farce of a Republican party seen in the vote for the Speaker in early January. Boris Johnson did not create the catastrophe that is the British Conservative party displayed Continue reading »

To suggest that China and only China needs to provide negative COVID-19 tests, tests on arrival or even a complete ban of arrivals from China is a political and racist approach to a global health problem. The subject of Covid tests for travellers from China is arousing a lot of commentary in recent media reports. Continue reading »

Research conducted by New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics into Russian trolling behaviour on Twitter in the lead-up to the 2016 US presidential election has found “no evidence of a meaningful relationship between exposure to the Russian foreign influence campaign and changes in attitudes, polarisation, or voting behaviour.” Which is to say Continue reading »

Conheça os nomes e os rostos dos parlamentares favoráveis aos atos golpistas de domingo ou à impunidade dos terroristas.

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Will anyone hear about it? We’re obsessing today on the Joe Biden documents case hour after hour so I doubt many of you have heard about this. Dean Baker reports: The December Consumer Price Index (CPI), following a great December jobs report, shows the economy has turned the corner and seems on a path to stable growth with moderate inflation. The CPI showed prices actually fell by 0.1 percent for the month. This brought the annualized rate of inflation over the last three months in the overall index to just 1.8 percent. With the drop in prices reported in December, the real average hourly wage for all workers is now 0.3 percent above its pre-pandemic level. For production and non-supervisory workers it is 0.8 percent higher. And, for production and non-supervisory workers in the low-paying hotel and restaurant sector it is up 5.7 percent. The overall index for December was held down by a 4.5 percent plunge in energy prices, but the 0.3 percent rise in the core index should not be terribly troubling.

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The “Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update” will be adding a new feature: book reviews that appear in academic journals. The Weekly Update already includes sections for book reviews at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews and in non-academic venues. To this, we’ll be adding “Open-Access Book Reviews in Academic Journals.” To make this work, the journals have to send in the reviews. In order to be included in this section, book reviews must be: open-access published no earlier than January 2023, published in an academic philosophy journal or, if published in a non-philosophy journal, be a review of a book authored by a philosopher, and submitted by email to dailynouseditor@gmail.com in the following format: “[Book Title] by [Book Author] is reviewed by [Review Author] in [Journal Title]”, where Journal Title must embed a link to the web page on which the book review appears (not to the journal’s homepage or table of contents). The Weekly Updates appear on Mondays. Normally, if you send in the links by Friday afternoon they can be included in the coming week’s edition.

After Stagflation during the 1970s, many markets were liberalized and, over time, central banks made a lot more independent in lots of places. In addition, some countries in Europe embraced the EURO (and founded the ECB), and barriers between regulated banking and shadow-banking (including by investment banks) were removed. The intended aim, and in certain […]

huTatjana Söding interviews environmental historian Troy Vettese about Half-Earth Socialism—a game based on a Verso book of the same name, co-written with Drew Pendergrass. In the game, the player plans the world economy with the aim of achieving climate justice, global democracy, and ‘the good life’ for all. Here, Söding and Vettese discuss the game, […]

There are no classes in our society, conservatives argue Eric Levitz writes at Intelligencer: “Progressives have long held that the right’s economic theories are just elaborate rationalizations for funneling money to the elite.” John Kenneth Galbraith put it more elegantly: “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” Ed Kilgore remarks on House Republicans renaming the House Committee on Education and Labor the House Committee on Education & the Workforce. The change, Kilgore writes: reflects a tradition of Republican labor hostility that has grown more remarkable as the GOP has come to think of itself as the party of working people with white non-college-educated folk at the core of its electoral coalition. The GOP’s self-identification with the horny-handed sons and daughters of toil is central to its claim that the Democratic Party is now a vassal of woke coastal elitists with Ph.D.’s, whose ground troops are Big Government leeches and the immigrants who want to join them at the welfare trough.

The twelfth-century figure William Longbeard was once widely known as a ‘spirited champion’ of the ‘poor people’ of London, executed because ‘death was long a favourite remedy for silencing the people’s advocates,’ in the words of Charles Dickens. The story of Longbeard and the revolt he led in 1196 formed part of the nineteenth-century radical […]

The Biden plan for replenishing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is unrealitic. And it does not appear to have a Plan B.

BAE Systems doesn’t want us to only think of them as serial murderers. According to their PR department, they are also interested in reading fairy tales to children. 

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New links… “If we can’t say exactly how we think, then how well do we know ourselves?” — Have you thought about how you think? Is it in pictures, in patterns, in words, or in some unsymbolized way?

The ICJ's opinion is an essential first step, but without meaningful action, it will not reverse the sinister reality on the ground in Palestine.

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