Herakles in the Age of Climate Chaos
On Monday afternoon of February 10, 2020, I went to the Classics department of Pomona College for a lecture on Herakles. Chiara Sulprizio of Vanderbilt University used cartoons and animation to help us...
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Here’s Hoping
In her new book—her 17th solo work—Rebecca Solnit recalls a conversation with an unnamed older man she was “seeing” who said to her, “Baby, you’re driven.” She adds that at that time, when she “threw...
View ArticleBuying Elections: The Bloomberg Meme Campaign
Interfering, corrupting and altering the views of electors is apparently frowned upon. But it all depends on who that manipulating source is. The Russians might be condemned for being meddlers of minds...
View ArticleThe BJP is Not India, and Every Indian is Not a Modi-Devotee
Rational people cannot gloss over the arbitrary exercise of authority in Kashmir, nor can they legitimize the lack of accountability in the union territory. Subsequent to the revocation of the...
View ArticleAfghan Troops say Taliban are Brothers and War is “Not Really Our Fight.”
The world is waiting anxiously to see whether the U.S. and Afghan governments and the Taliban will agree to a one-week truce that could set the stage for a “permanent and comprehensive” ceasefire and a...
View ArticleChina’s Economy: Powerful But Vulernable
China’s economy is often presented as a powerful engine. This is, however, only one face of it. It has also been marked by vulnerabilities, and these have become more obvious over time, as the costs of...
View ArticleMinority Abuse: A Slice of Life in Modi’s India
It is not uncommon for colonial governments to enact sedition laws with the purpose of stifling dissent; it is, following independence, for democratic governments to be enforcing them to quell critics....
View ArticleA Silicon Valley Life Lesson: Money That ‘Clumps’ Crushes
If everything rich people tell us — about prosperity — happened to be true, Silicon Valley would right now be overflowing with exceedingly happy people. Silicon Valley, after all, has everything rich...
View ArticleWe Shouldn’t Have to Beg Mark Zuckerberg to Respect Democracy
Last month George Soros had a New York Times column arguing that Mark Zuckerberg should not be running Facebook. (Does the NYT reserve space on its opinion page for billionaires?) The gist of Soros’...
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Irish Elections and Unification
Photograph Source: Ardfern – CC BY-SA 3.0 The victory by Ireland’s leftwing Sinn Fein Party in the Republic’s recent election has not only overturned some 90 years of domination by the island’s two...
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The Escalating Class War Against Bernie Sanders
Photograph Source: Alper Çuğun – CC BY 2.0 More than ever, Bernie Sanders is public enemy number one for power elites that thrive on economic injustice. The Bernie 2020 campaign is a direct threat to...
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Religion is a Repeating Chapter in the History of Politics
Jesus and the rich young man by Heinrich Hofmann, 1889 In 1949 the German philosopher Karl Jaspers coined the term ‘the axial age’ in his book, ‘The Origin and Goal of History.’ He defined the Axial...
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Julian Assange Must be Freed, Not Betrayed
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair On Saturday, there will be a march from Australia House in London to Parliament Square, the centre of British democracy. People will carry pictures of the Australian...
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WORTH THE PRICE? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War
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View ArticleJust Two Kings Talking
…[M]en should be treated in such a way that there’s no fear of their seeking revenge… -Nicolai Machiavelli, “Mixed Principalities,” The Prince “You come at the king, you bess not miss.” – Omar, The...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Lima Group Meeting
Re: “Lima Group” meeting of February 20, 2020 in Gatineau, Quebec 18 February 2020 Dear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: I am addressing you as a concerned Canadian regarding Canada’s foreign policy...
View ArticleA Treatise on Trinities
Back in the days of Thatcherism I watched a journalist interview a Conservative MP on British television. The MP had the wind in his sails and the journalist was decidedly in the doldrums. That was a...
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The Rule of Law Under Trump
William Galston, a Brookings Institution senior fellow, said that “we are a government of men and not law.” It has no force until people enforce it. That is the underlying theme of Philip Rucker and...
View ArticleCanada, Get Out of the Lima Group, Core Group and OAS
“Qui se ressemble, s’assemble.” The English saying is “birds of a feather flock together.” Translated from Spanish: “Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are.” The folk wisdom that...
View ArticleThe Wealth That’s Killing Us Will Save Us: Politics Through the Looking-Glass
The Bloomberg for President campaign office looks like a complete anachronism in the heart of Harlem in New York City. The office is located on Harlem’s famous 125th Street near the Metro North...
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