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Fri, 13/06/2025 - 23:30

Three visits to Magic Jewelry, a small shop in Manhattan’s Chinatown, where spectral photographs reveal something more than aura color.

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Today we live in the Great Vibes epoch. Inherent yet ephemeral, vibes are difficult to measure. They’re the perfect concept for a period when “if you know, you know” is answer enough. Uncertainty is the fraught space where pseudo-prophetic practices like aura photography thrive. Still, who doesn’t want promises of self-knowledge, healing, and growth when we know what the problems are but change seems futile?

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Fri, 13/06/2025 - 18:49

On Tuesday, June 10 2025, I addressed a meeting at the European Parliament, an event organised by The Left and M5S Europa, on the theme of “The Economic Conditions for Peace”, alongside Jeffrey Sachs and Giuseppe Conte. My talk can be watched and read here. [INTRODUCTION] A year ago, I would have started this speech with a lament […]

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Fri, 13/06/2025 - 18:02
Let me state my two main conclusions. First, starting from sharply different views, there has been substantial convergence, both in terms of methodology and in terms of architecture. Second, this convergence has been mostly in the right direction, allowing future research to build on the existing conceptual structure. Put strongly, macroeconomics may have a claim […]
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Fri, 13/06/2025 - 11:43

‘I do love the creatures I hunt’, writes Patrick Galbraith in Uncommon Ground: Rethinking Our Relationship With The Countryside. ‘I love snipe in sundrenched winter meadows and it’s never really autumn, I think, until the teal are in.’ Like many who take part in activities like shooting and wildfowling, Galbraith — a former editor at […]

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Fri, 13/06/2025 - 07:51
QUICK ORANGE-CHOCOLATE MOUSSE This is the quickest and easiest and one of the most delicate chocolate mousse recipes around; it is at its most glamorous when served in saucer champagne glasses (not hollow-stemmed ones), but may be served in punch cups, Old Fashioned glasses, or even custard cups. ½ cup superfine sugar2 tablespoons Grand Marnier8 […]