… there is a more foundational reason why DeSantis and the far right are attacking education: it is the means by which our young people are made into citizens. Schools and universities are laboratories of aspiration, places where young people cultivate their own capacities, expose themselves to the experiences and worldviews of others, and learn… Read More Schools and universities are ground zero for America’s culture war
Aidan McQuade Theresa May, both as home secretary and prime minister, pushed for the UK to become a global leader in the international struggle against contemporary forms of slavery. Her vision was always a blurred one, in which she somehow reconciled championing the 2015 Modern Slavery Act alongside prosecuting victims of human trafficking for the… Read More Anti-strike bill: a step toward forced labour in the UK?
THE NEW INDIA WHINING This last fortnight has not been a good one for the BJP or its bhaktiveers, even if we discount the irony of an autocratic despot being invited as the Chief guest at our Republic Day function. One would have expected that the wiseacres of MEA would, in between rejecting assorted documentaries… Read More Avay Shukla: A week of conspiracies, nationalism, and delusions
The upheaval rocking the Adani business empire is one of the dramatic global developments of the last week. I was delighted that The Wire saw fit to pick up and republish Chartbook #190. I’ve long harbored a secret ambition to join the ranks of the Wire-wallahs. Cam and I also featured the Adani story on the Pod… Read More Adam Tooze: Indian nation-building, Modi and Adani / Mihir Sharma: What Worries Indians About Adani’s Empire
NB: I can think of several ‘cultural organisations’, national-level leaders, news channels and ‘national security’ agencies for whom pathological lying has been a way of life, the sole purpose of their existence. Will they get a mental health check? Even if they do, they will get what we call a ‘clean chit’. We’re all very… Read More Pathological lying could finally be getting attention as a mental disorder
Ground reports by Hridayesh Joshi By हृदयेश जोशी 23 Jan, 2023 https://hindi.newslaundry.com/2023/01/23/uttarakhand-joshimath-tehri-dam-crisis-houses-ntpc-project उत्तराखंड में जहां भी हाइड्रोपावर प्रोजेक्ट हैं, वहां गांव दरक रहे हैं. लोगों की जमीन धंस रही है और खेत बर्बाद हो रहे हैं. “बेटा, हम घर से बेघर हो गये हैं. ये घर तो टूट कर गिर रहा है. मेरे नाती-पोते सब… Read More Joshimath: उत्तराखंड का जल शोक, बांधों की बलि चढ़ते गांव
First posted June 19, 2016 Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism by Judy Wajcman Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age by Bernard E. Harcourt Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art by Virginia Heffernan Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Mood and… Read More In the Depths of the Digital Age: Edward Mendelson reviews five books on psychological life in the age of the internet / We Are Hopelessly Hooked: Jacob Weisberg
Moustafa Bayoumi Who remembers how, in 2018 and just days before the deadliest attack on Jewish people in US history, a prominent US politician tweeted: “We cannot allow Soros, Steyer, and Bloomberg to BUY this election!”? The tweet was widely – and correctly – understood as dangerously antisemitic, particularly heinous in a period of rising anti-Jewish… Read More America’s Republicans have a serious antisemitism problem. It isn’t Ilhan Omar
Fatima Bhutto If recent Bollywood films are any indication, it is fair to say that India’s film industry is obsessed with Pakistan. Obsessed. Like standing outside your apartment and trying to peek through your windows at night with binoculars obsessed. If the films were smarter or more daring, Pakistan might be flattered. Instead, we are beginning to be mildly… Read More Bollywood is obsessed with Pakistan. We’d be flattered if it weren’t so nasty
“What Trump has done is quite arguably the worst crime against the United States that a president could commit.” Martin Pengelly in New York The conservative judge who convinced Mike Pence he could not overturn the 2020 election has predicted “the beginning of the end of Donald Trump” – the former president who incited the January 6 insurrection… Read More Judge who told Pence not to overturn election predicts ‘beginning of end of Trump’
