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After congressional criticism and subpoenas, Columbia suddenly decided to skip speaking to student protesters and go to hearings.

The post Columbia Cuts Due Process for Student Protesters After Congress Demands Harsher Punishment appeared first on The Intercept.

By Dave Rollo

As the setting for Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac, Sauk County, Wisconsin, holds a special place within the pantheon of environmental literature. Leopold’s writings on ecology and forestry brought an understanding of land repair and remediation to academic and general audiences. It is difficult to imagine the fields of wildlife biology, soil conservation, or restoration ecology without Leopold’s contribution.

Likewise, the moral basis for the environmental movement in later decades owes its origins in part to Leopold’s land ethic.

The post Steady-State Origins in Sauk County appeared first on Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy.

Sometime in 2016 , soon after I’d joined the Northern Beaches Committee for Palestine, a group of us visited the then premier of New South Wales in his Manly electorate office. It would be safe to say that there weren’t many people on the Northern Beaches then who knew much about Palestine, or cared, but Continue reading »

A government is in trouble when it has to utter the banal and reiterate the damnably obvious. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is certainly struggling of late, a state of affairs all the more unspeakable given the calibre of his opponent. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton barely makes the grade of a two-dimensional politician, but has Continue reading »

Our understanding of the darker foundations of US thinking about the US China relationship is obscured by the public utterances of Presidents, politicians and public policy commentators. This is the froth and bubble of policy but it does little to reveal the foundations of this visceral fear of Ch Continue reading »

Australia’s experience over the past three years of the highest inflation in 35 years is in large part — as it has been in other countries — the result of producers of goods and services, in both the private and public sectors, being able to pass on increases in costs to their customers or clients Continue reading »

As China commemorates the 120th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping’s birth, the Post examines his legacy across generations. In the final part of a three-part series, we look at Deng’s vision for Hong Kong and how much of it has been realised. Here is part one and two. In late 1991, Hong Kong businessman Frederick Ma Si-hang desperately wanted Continue reading »

Speaking recently on the ABC, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz claimed that Australia was ‘giving away its natural resources’. This he found ‘mind-boggling’. Would a sovereign mining company have made a difference? Continue reading »

Back in 1987, when no one knew that the Cold War was just about to end, the Canadian Government signed up to build ten nuclear-powered submarines. That submarine program lasted for all of two years before being cancelled in 1989. No nuclear Canadian sub ever even began construction, let alone gettin Continue reading »

The looming question for me and my partner is “where might we live as we grow older and frailer?” For us, the ideal place is likely to be a retirement village. But at what cost? Continue reading »

Sure. Give him the nuclear codes again. What could go wrong? .

It is that time of year again. Ice the beer, call your friends, and set up your big board because fantasy season is beginning. Yes, philosophy fans, it is time to build your department.

To create your fantasy philosophy league, you will need ten colleagues. Before the start of the academic year, arrange a time and a place for your draft. Each player, called a “provost,” begins by coming up with a clever joke name for their department—The Clean Platonists, The Synthetic A Priori Buttkickers, The Heideggerian Brownshirts, The Illogical Positivists, Hegels and Lockes, The Quinean Undetached Rabbit Parts, Buridan’s Asses, etc. Once fully populated with philosophers, these ten departments will form a consortium.

Josh Marshall on the Arlington scandal is really good. He makes the important point that the whole thing was designed as a campaign stunt to make Harris look bad for supposedly failing to honor the dead. We all know how that worked out: Three days ago, the Trump campaign held a campaign event at Arlington National Cemetery. The idea was to lay a wreath honoring the 13 members of the U.S. military who were killed during the evacuation of Kabul in 2021 and film a political ad. They would distribute the video and attack Vice President Harris and President Biden for not “showing up” for their campaign event, which they sought to portray was an established memorial. As soon as the video circulated, military policy experts I know said right off the bat they were shocked that the campaign had been allowed to hold a campaign event on the grounds of the cemetery and circulate video of it. It isn’t just unseemly. It’s against the law. How were they allowed to do that? That turned out to be a good and prescient question.

From smoking, to taxes, to cronyism, Rishi Sunak's party is desperate for us to forget everything that happened until just last month

Has AG Sulzberger turned it into the Orange Lady? “WTF Is Happening To The NY Times?” Digby wrote just days ago. A chorus of critics believe the Gray Lady has lost its way, and they’ve brought receipts. The Times giving space this week to National Review‘s editor Rich Lowry, for example, to suggest that on character Donald Trump has a better case to make for his election led one FKA Twitter user to suggest, “The Onion writers are now running the @nytimes.” The New York Time Pitchbot account added, “I think we may be nearing the end of civilization.” Dan Froomkin caustically distilled a March speech publisher A.G. Sulzberger gave at Oxford University explaining Sulzberger’s editorial stance thusly: One: You will earn my displeasure if you warn people too forcefully about the possible end to democracy at the hands of a deranged insurrectionist. And two: You prove your value to me by trolling our liberal readers.

The more Trump and Vance run from weird, the more they own it No, the Republicans’ vice-presidential nominee is not weird. Not weird at all: JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential candidate and US senator from Ohio, attacked teachers who do not have children in newly resurfaced remarks from 2021. In the resurfaced clip, Vance, who was speaking at a forum held by the Center for Christian Virtue, attacks “leaders on the left” and Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, for not having children. “So many of the leaders of the left, and I hate to be so personal about this, but they’re people without kids trying to brainwash the minds of our children, that really disorients me and disturbs me,” Vance can be heard saying in the clip. “Randi Weingarten, who’s the head of the most powerful teachers’ union in the country, she doesn’t have a single child. If she wants to brainwash and destroy the minds of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone.” Weingarten is gay, married, and a stepmother to two daughters. Oh, and Vance?

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Kamala Harris’s campaign asks: Who is a normal American now?

The post Kamala’s Moment appeared first on The New York Review of Books.

My neighbor Craig is a prepper. For years, he’s been telling me the world is coming to an end, and for years, I’ve been ignoring him. Then one day I saw him digging with a shovel in his backyard. The bank gave him a second mortgage, he told me, and he was going to build a bunker forty feet beneath the earth. I accidentally laughed at him, and the two of us haven’t spoken since.

But then ChatGPT was released, and there were all these articles about AI taking over the world. And then Trump was running for president again, and that Ohio Senator called for a civil war if Trump loses. And then I saw an Instagram post speculating that Coscto was encouraging consumers to stock up for the apocalypse, because they were selling Readywise Emergency Food Buckets, and it dawned on me that maybe Craig was right. Maybe I should be preparing.

My credit rating is, according to Equifax, fucking abysmal, so I knew a bunker bank loan was out of the equation. But I do have a Costco card, and I figured the least I could do to prepare for the End Times was drive over to Costco and buy my own Readywise Emergency Food Bucket.

Eyebrows raised as accounts show Reform UK rushed to repay £200,000 to Richard Tice, just a week after Nigel Farage took control of the party

An inside look at the little-known task force that uncovered the companies secretly funding Nixon’s operation.