• The Hybrid War Against Lula

    As Bolsonaro arrest looms, allies set stage for coup after possible Trump victory After a year in which Brazil’s GDP grew at a rate over 3 times higher than projected by the IMF, unemployment hit an 11-year low, and the number of Brazilians living with severe food insecurity dropped from 33 million to 20 million, More

  • Why the war on cyclists can't last

    OPINION: Former transport minister Simon Bridges now seems like a raving

  • The War Between Knowledge And Stupidity

    The War Between Knowledge And Stupidity Authored by Bert Olivier via The Brownstone Institute, Bernard Stiegler was, until his premature death, probably the most important philosopher of technology of the present. His work on technology has shown us that, far from being exclusively a danger to human existence, it is a pharmakon – a poison as well as a cure – and that, as long as we approach technology as a means to ‘critical intensification,’ it could assist us in promoting the...

  • The President’s War Against the Jews

    For some American Jews, the months since Oct. 7 have felt like a horror movie, as they watch, with increasing alarm, as our president—for whom many voted, and in whom many placed inviolable trust—seemed to, moment after crucial moment, throw Israel under the bus. Earlier this month, a U.N. report from its Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General revealed what Israel has been saying for months, namely that Hamas committed the most vile sexual violence and torture on Oct. 7,...

  • The President’s War Against the Jews

    For some American Jews, the months since Oct. 7 have felt like a horror movie, as they watch, with increasing alarm, as our president—for whom many voted, and in whom many placed inviolable trust—seemed to, moment after crucial moment, throw Israel under the bus. Earlier this month, a U.N. report from its Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General revealed what Israel has been saying for months, namely that Hamas committed the most vile sexual violence and torture on Oct. 7,...

    • WNYC

    Newshour, Sudan: who is fuelling the war?

    Almost a year after the civil war broke out, we speak to the former UN Special Envoy to Sudan about who is fuelling the war, as famine looms over the country.We also look into the the plan presented to EU member states to use Russian assets in Europe to finance weapons for Ukraine. Also in the programme: Irish Prime Minister steps down for political and personal reasons; and will San Marino's national football team break its twenty-year losing streak?(Photo: A Sudanese family fleeing the...

  • The Metamodern Shift in the Culture Wars

    Metamodernism conveys the experience of living in a world in which we feel comfortable oscillating between different perspectives.

  • SXSW review: Civil War

    There is an inherent audacity in making a film like Civil War, even before writer-director Alex Garland starts to lay out the finer points of his near-future thriller. At a time when the atrocities of war are unfolding in multiple places around the world, and our own country feels perched on the kind of knife’s edge where just about anything could happen, it’s a bold move to make such a film, particularly outside of the more exploitation-heavy genre flights of things like The Purge. Treating a...

    • Screen

    ‘Civil War’: SXSW Review

    Kirsten Dunst plays a photojournalist facing the horrors of an American civil war in Alex Garland's new dystopian thriller

  • POLL: Most Americans now oppose war

    POLL: Most Americans now oppose war (Third column, 3rd story, link) Related stories:Israel admits it may not be able to destroy Hamas

    • KTSA

    Jack's Books: That Civil War-And This One

    Back about 15 years ago, a Texan named Bill Bishop wrote “The Big Sort: Why The Clustering

    • AiPT!

    ‘Star Wars: Dark Droids’ review

    Any fan of Star Wars can easily pick this up and find something to appreciate.