Reflections on Graeber and Wengrow’s ‘Dawn of Everything’
David Graeber and David Wengrow spent ten years studying and thinking about human prehistory.
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KLG: What if Medicine Were Taught Like a Science?
An unsparing look at some glaring deficiencies in reserach and training in medicine.
Read more...Brexit Britain Is All Alone in a Senseless Pursuit of Disaster Capitalism
As other nations return to state-led investment, Truss and Kwarteng act to weaken the democracy, economy and rights of Britain.
Read more...Supreme Court Grapples with Animal Welfare in a Challenge to a California Law Requiring Pork to Be Humanely Raised
By David Favre, Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law and Co-Founder of the Animal Legal Defense Fund. Republished from The Conversation. Should Californians be able to require higher welfare standards for farm animals that are raised in other states if products from those animals are to be sold in California? The […]
Read more...Maskstravaganza: Mask Fit, Mask Manufacturing, Masks on the Movie Set
Masks as a mark of solidarity.
Read more...The Lancet Commission on Lessons for the Future from the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Review
The Lancet Commission unintentionally shows that neolibealism helped cause the horrific public health response to Covid-19
Read more...Book Excerpt: Rituals and the Search for Order
Research suggests that we spontaneously engage in ritualized behavior when facing stressful and uncertain situations.
Read more...Is ‘Seize Now, Sort It Later’ Itself an Assault on Liberty?
In a novelist’s world, there’d be two attacks on liberty, and the public would be led to see one of them.
Read more...New USPS Delivery Network: Radically Cutting Rural Service, Headcount; Likely to Further Slow Delivery
The gutting of USPS is accelerating. A step backwards for what passes as American civilization.
Read more...‘Culture Has Lost the Ability to Grasp the Present’
An extract from Mark Fisher’s ‘Ghosts of My Life’ discusses how culture has hit the pause button.
Read more...Liberalism Is Not the Opposite of Conservatism
How debates over liberalism and conservatism obscure the core issue: Why does capital control labor, and not labor capital?
Read more...A Moment of Silence
Why a moment of silence is not enough.
Read more...Queen Elizabeth II: A Moderniser Who Steered the British Monarchy into the 21st Century
A long sweep of Elizabeth II’s reign.
Read more...In Refusing to Prioritize Drivers’ Safety, UPS Risks Major Strike
Transportation and delivery workers have increasingly had it. Now UPS employees are on the verge of forcing their issues.
Read more...Book Review: The Downside of Human Exceptionalism
In “If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal,” Justin Gregg argues that human intelligence may represent an evolutionary dead end.
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