Tag Archives: Politics & Society

August 21, 1968 — a date which will live in infamy  [embedded content]   Advertisements

Steven Pinker — a cherry-picking​ Panglossian  [embedded content] Advertisements

Birger Schlaug skärskådar Annie Lööfs ordblajande i DN Birger Schlaug gjorde igår en uppfriskande och njutningsfull närläsning av den Margaret Thatcher och Ayn Rand älskande Annie Lööfs DN-Debatt-artikel. Inte mycket blir kvar av politikerbroilern Lööfs tyckmyckentrutade mumbo jumbo. Tag och läs! Advertisements

Erdoğan hat die Demokratie endgültig abgeschafft Am Sonntagabend sah ich Monteverdis Die Krönung der Poppea in der Berliner Staatsoper, eine mythische Geschichte aus dem Intrigenpalast von Kaiser Nero. Bei der Krönungsszene am Ende liegt die Hälfte der Helden in ihrem Blut am Boden. Anschließend ging ich zum Bebelplatz, wo die Nazis 1933 Bücher ins Feuer geworfen haben. Ich versuchte, mir diese Nacht der Bücherverbrennung vor 85 Jahren zu vergegenwärtigen...

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The captain of an unconquerable soul A hundred years ago, in July 1918, the unconquerable soul of one of the greatest​ men that have walked this earth was born — Nelson Mandela. This poem helped him keep​ hope alive for​ 27 years in prison. Long live his memory. [embedded content]​ Il cittadino medio 100 anni fa non credeva ci fosse alcuna possibilità di migliorare le proprie condizioni di vita. Persino in una democrazia come gli Stati Uniti la segregazione...

The psychopathy of Ayn Rand Now, I don’t care to discuss the alleged complaints American Indians have against this country. I believe, with good reason, the most unsympathetic Hollywood portrayal of Indians and what they did to the white man. They had no right to a country merely because they were born here and then acted like savages. The white man did not conquer this country … Since the Indians did not have the concept of property or property rights—they...

In need of medication [embedded content] In Trump-era US, reality sure beats fiction in the worst way possible, day after day. Advertisements

 [embedded content] The reckless, untruthful, outrageous, incompetent & undignified buffoon Donald Trump is debasing the nation day after day. A grandmother — Liz DeCou — gets arrested in California for attempting to deliver toys and books to migrant children separated from their parents at the border. Sickening to see how decent people are being treated. Advertisements

The mess at the heart of the EU The EU establishment has been held to account for the euro mess, for austerity policies that turned recession into depression, for the galloping inequality, and for the millions and millions of unemployed. The EU austerity policies bread understandable and righteous anger — but also ugly far-right xenophobic political movements taking advantage of the frustration that austerity policies inevitably produce. Ultimately this...