9 hours ago by zen

Charles Cameron has been guest blogging here in a series on radical Islamism and terrorism and is now branching out in to more general posts that touch upon apocalyptic or esoteric religious movements.. A former researcher with the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University, his most recent ...

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1 day ago by Margaret Soltan

… on the financial crisis. Prospect Magazine writes: [T]here was a clear winner. He is Simon Johnson, an economist at the prestigious Peterson Institute in Washington, DC, who has been leading the argument against overmighty banking. His ideas are well grounded in theory, but he has also done more t ...

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2 days ago by Arthur Goldhammer

I confess I didn't have the patience to read all of this, but if a slugfest between heavyweight professional provocateurs is your thing, here is Badiou vs. Finkielkraut on the national identity question.

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2 days ago by Arthur Goldhammer

Via Causeur I learn that Carla Bruni has a homeless friend, Denis, with whom she chats about "books and music." As it happens, I've just finished translating the chapter on "the politics of presence" in Pierre Rosanvallon's latest book, La légitimité démocratique. There couldn't be a better illustra ...

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2 days ago by Vadim Nikitin

Like James Dean, Yegor Gaidar lived hard and died young. But unlike Dean, the only victim of whose reckless driving was himself, the man who privatised Russia’s economy in the 1990s took his entire young country on a deadly joyride that wrecked millions of lives. That’s no hyperbole: The Lancet has ...

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2 days ago by eueyboy

Although The Underground Laboratory is geographically separated from New Zealand, several of the scientists here have historical connections with the small Pacific island nation. The phrase “World famous in New Zealand” (a tongue-in-cheek nod to New Zealand’s self-acclaimed prominence on the world s ...

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4 days ago by admin

At the end of last year in my Swans article “Noam Chomsky And The Power Of Letters” I criticised progressive intellectuals for deflecting attention from the anti-democratic function that liberal philanthropists fulfill in the service of imperialism. I concluded by noting that if “we are serious abou ...

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4 days ago by zen

From reader Chris, of the USMC. Ties in well with prior discussions here of the need for cultural-educational-cognitive renovation in American society and the marked inadequacy of the current elite: National Affairs -” Keeping America’s Edge” - Jim Manzi ….Reconciling these competing forces is Ameri ...

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4 days ago by marathepa

How about using caste for a caste less society? I have to be in power to make visible difference. What makes me come in power? Caste. Why not use caste intelligently to achieve my goal of economic upliftment and less disparity? Yes, I know that not only money will do the miracle. I need good educati ...

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4 days ago by SelfHelpBooks

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