The Public-Private Fusion
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The Public-Private Fusion
Opinion | Kamala Harris is wrong about science fiction
Gore Vidal’s essay, “Sex Is Politics” “Sex Is Politics,” by Gore Vidal, Playboy, January 1979: The sexual attitudes of any given society are the result of political decisions. ….. Although our notions about what constitutes correct sexual behavior are usually based on religious texts, those texts are invariably interpreted by the rulers in order…
I think this is also a mistaken description of the problem: This nationalist backlash is based on a fundamental misconception – that if only it was possible to reinstate a parochial and ‘sovereign’ nation-state, it would be possible to ‘take back control’. That our collapsing wages, surging living costs, and hollowing out of social support…
Taiwan ‘probing alleged funding of triad-linked groups by China’ Financial Times, Oct 12: Chang An-le is accustomed to being on the wrong side of the law. The former gangster, known as the White Wolf, spent 17 years as a fugitive from Taiwanese justice in mainland China and a decade behind bars in the US on…
Are Farage and Trump really fascists? | Kevin Passmore “Yet whatever the similarities, we should think twice before interpreting the present as a re-enactment of the past. For one thing, fascism is notoriously hard to define. Decades of research have not enabled academics to agree on a definition. The problem is that fascism – like…
Stathis Kouvelakis: Syriza’s Rise and Fall. New Left Review 97, January-February 2016. Could you explain in more detail the stages of Syriza’s evolution after the June 2012 elections, when it emerged as the national opposition with 27 per cent of the vote? After the 2012 elections there was a general perception that it was just…