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The American descent

The speed of America’s moral descent under Donald Trump is breathtaking. In a matter of months we’ve gone from a nation that stood for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to a nation that tears children from their parents and puts them in cages. What’s almost equally remarkable about this plunge into barbarism is that it’s not a response to any actual problem. The mass influx of murderers and rapists that Trump talks about, the wave of crime committed by immigrants here...

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Truth and Politics

Facts and opinions, though they must be kept apart, are not antagonistic to each other; they belong to the same realm. But do facts, independent of opinion and interpretation, exist at all? Have not generations of historians and philosophers of history demonstrated the impossibility of ascertaining facts without interpretation, since they must first be picked out of a chaos of sheer happenings (and the principles of choice are surely not factual data) and then be fitted into a...

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Politische Korrektheit — Nein, danke!

Politische Korrektheit — Nein, danke! Ich bin, und zwar von ganzem Herzen, Schriftstellerin, Reisejournalistin, Literaturver-anstalterin und Weltreisende – und in allen diesen meinen Inkarnationen nagt die Political Correctness zunehmend an meinen Fundamenten. Nicht zuletzt an meinen Idealen: Aufklärung. Gleichberechtigung. Empathie und eine Mitmenschlichkeit, die blind ist für Kategorien wie Ethnie, Gender, Herkunft. War PC nicht einst, vor ihrer...

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Two words say​ it all!

Two words say​ it all!  [embedded content] One cannot but grieve for a nation that has given us presidents like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and now is run by a witless clown. An absolute disgrace. Advertisements

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Judith Butler — postmodern mumbo jumbo​

Judith Butler — postmodern mumbo jumbo​ The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one...

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Theodor W. Adorno

 [embedded content] Vor 50 Jahren rebellierte die Jugend. Viele beriefen sich dabei auf Philosophen wie Theodor Adorno und Herbert Marcuse. Was haben uns diese Denker heute noch zu sagen? Ein Gespräch mit dem Historiker und Philosophen Philipp Felsch über die Meisterdenker von damals. Advertisements

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Niall Ferguson and​ conservative gaslighting

Niall Ferguson and​ conservative gaslighting Last week The Stanford Daily reported a curious story concerning Niall Ferguson, a conservative historian who is a fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. The story itself, although ugly, isn’t that important. But it offers a window into a reality few people, certainly in the news media, are willing to acknowledge: the bad faith that pervades conservative discourse … Ferguson is, as it happens, one of those...

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ESO-rapport om flyktinginvandringens offentligfinansiella kostnader

I studien görs också en prognos av flyktinginvandringens, inklusive flykting-anhöriginvandringens, långsiktiga offentligfinansiella påverkan. Denna prognos utnyttjar det faktum att flyktingars sysselsättningsutveckling varit ganska stabil för varje givet ursprungsland för de flyktingar som anlänt de senaste 20 åren, vilket ökar rimligheten i ett antagande om att liknande sysselsättningsutveckling kommer att gälla också i framtiden. Som grund för prognosen används data från år...

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