Maro Itoje’s head has been in Moussa’s hands for more than a decade. From behind the barber’s chair, Moussa has seen Itoje mature from a much-hyped teenager to a three-time 30-year-old British and Irish Lion. Now captain for the first time, one of Itoje’s final appointments before departing for Australia is to have his mane...
Glastonbury organisers say they are “appalled” by comments made by an act. Read full article at source...
Days of War Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners Less a novel than an exploded manifesto, Days of War, Nights of Love might be just what we need. It certainly might be just what we need. It certainly saved my night when I picked it up. I was expecting an evening of frenzied screamo music...
“We need the kind of visionary leadership that Zohran is providing in this campaign,” said Sanders. Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) announced his endorsement of Zohran Mamdani in...
In a recent series of exchanges between Slavoj Žižek and Simon Critchley, the spectre of anarchism has once again emerged. In querying Critchley’s proposal in his recent book Infinitely Demanding (2007) for a radical politics that works outside the state – that take its distance from it – Žižek (2007a) says: The ambiguity of Critchley’s...
David Wallace-Wells is an opinion writer at the NY Times. He has a newsletter up today titled “Our Regression on Gender Is a Tragedy, Not Just a Political Problem.” Some of what he says is worth considering but ultimately he’s writing this from a solidly progressive point of view so I think he mostly winds...
Elon Musk has said he is pulling back from investing in politics, which at first blush seems counterintuitive. He has said more than once that America and the West are facing an existential risk, and he has already proven that he is immune to the usual financial and social pressures that most mortals would fear...
Society is sick; and the politicians as usual have the cure. Only we don’t want it. The cure is worse than the disease. In fact, the cure is the disease … We are sick to death of the attempts of the political medicine men to make us better. Human beings are quite all right as...
There was a time when Robert Mugabe stood as the towering figure of African liberation. Raised fists, Pan-Africanist banners, and chants of self-rule marked Zimbabwe’s emergence from white settler colonialism. Mugabe, like many of his generation, represented the victory of the oppressed against imperial domination. But history, with its ruthless clarity, would later mark him...
How should we remember World War Two? Read full article at source...
Paul Melly West Africa analyst Reuters Even a stellar international business career cannot prepare you for the hard realities of politics in Ivory Coast, where some are questioning the democratic credentials of the West African nation most famous for being the producer of much of the world’s cocoa and some of its finest footballers. That...
James Lindsay has been hated on the left for some time because he’s been actively involved in ridiculing the woke left. He’s recently become somewhat similarly hated by some on the right as he’s spent the last few months talking about the “woke right.” I haven’t engaged in any of those battles online but today...
America desperately needs a united front to restrain the wrecking ball of the Trump regime. While outraged opposition has been visible and vocal, it remains a far cry from developing a capacity to protect what’s left of democracy in the United States. With the administration in its fourth month, the magnitude of the damage underway...
I find fodder for op-eds in some of the strangest places. I came across this video (“Politics is NOT a zero-sum game,” by Shai Davidai) in a HIT posted on Amazon Mechanical Turk by Davidai — an academic study in which he gauged viewers’ reactions to it. (For those who don’t know, Mechanical Turk is...