Every day in June, the most popular wedding month of the year, about 13,000 American couples will say “I do,” committing to a lifelong relationship that will be full of friendship, joy, and love that will carry them forward to their final days on this earth. Except, of course, it doesn’t work out…

Manners Matter. “During the 17th century, in France, manners became a political issue. King Louis XIV and his predecessors, in collecting together the nobility of France to live with the sovereign at Versailles, instituted a sort of school of manners. At the palace, the courtiers lived under the…

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio García Martínez Beck Diefenbach/Reuters Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at the announcement of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to ‘cure, prevent, or manage all disease’ by the end of the century, San Francisco, September…

Kadrs no jaunās filmas "Melānijas hronika". Foto - Agnese Zeltiņa Iesaki šo rakstu citiem! 21 Facebook Draugiem Twitter E-pasts “Mājas Viesis” ir jaunās Viestura Kairiša filmas “Melānijas hronika” atbalstītāju pulkā. Filma veidota pēc rakstnieces Melānijas Vanagas atmiņu romāna “Veļupes krastā”…

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A Feminism for Tomorrow: Introduction Kaavya Asoka and Sarah Leonard Fall 2016 The London-based women’s group Southall Black Sisters protests against attempts to shut it down for disrupting “family values” in the 1990s (Courtesy of Southall Black Sisters) On the cusp of what many see as an important…

With the presidential race entering the final lap, panic is setting in as Hillary Clinton fails to pull ahead of Donald Trump in the polls. In a viral video, an exasperated Clinton asks “why am I not 50 points ahead?” Even the mainstream media talking heads – including those who previously dismissed…

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Orange is the New Black is about to return for a third season. If you haven’t watched it yet, it’s time to sit up and take note: the Netflix programme looks set to become a classic of feminist television. The show is based on the memoirs of Piper Kerman who, after serving 13 months for drug…

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The Report of the Iraq Inquiry by a Committee of Privy Counsellors chaired by Sir John Chilcot Not the Chilcot Report by Peter Oborne Broken Vows: Tony Blair: The Tragedy of Power by Tom Bower Charles Ommanney/Contact Press Images George W. Bush and Tony Blair at a joint press conference at…

The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money by Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens by Nicholas Shaxson The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens by Gabriel Zucman,…

“You are my creator, but I am your master; obey!” In the two centuries since Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s monster first uttered these rebellious words to his maker in the pages of Frankenstein , this terrible reversal has captivated cultural imagination. What would happen if or when the day came…

David Simon’s recent HBO miniseries “Show Me a Hero” has drawn attention to the history of one of the most misunderstood parts of American urban life: public housing. Many observers across the political spectrum believe that public housing in the United States has been a failure. Liberals think it…

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Recenzija Foto no izrādes "Veiksmes akadēmija" 2016. gada 4. oktobrī Izdrukas versija Par Paulas Pļavnieces un Matīsa Gricmaņa izrādi "Veiksmes akadēmija" "Dirty Deal Teatro" Pirmoreiz Robina S. Šarmas grāmatu "Mūks, kurš pārdeva savu Ferrari " man ieteica viena no labākajām draudzenēm laikā, kad…

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All presidencies are historic. But no president since at least LBJ, and probably FDR, has arrived in Washington at a moment of greater historic urgency than Barack Obama. The man who took that oath of office seemed cut from American folklore — a neophyte politician elected senator only four years…

Our new issue, “ Rank and File ,” is out now. To celebrate its release, new subscriptions are discounted. J .D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis comes highly recommended: National Review executive editor Reihan Salam, Silicon Valley scion Peter Thiel, and “tiger…

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D uring the 1960s and 1970s, the consensus in Western academic and intellectual institutions was very much on the left. Writers like Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu shot to eminence by attacking the civilization they dismissed as “bourgeois.” The critical-theory writings of Jürgen Habermas…

New Left Review 100, July-August 2016 tony wood DARK MIRRORS The Films of Andrei Zvyagintsev In a rocky, unpeopled landscape in the far northwest of Russia, where the Kola Peninsula juts into the Arctic Circle, a small group is celebrating a friend’s birthday by taking drunken potshots at a row of…

Recenzija 2016. gada 30. septembrī Izdrukas versija Par Daces Vīgantes stāstu krājumu "Ledus apelsīns", apgāds "Zvaigzne ABC", 2016 Nesen šajā pašā portālā izlasīju Daces Vīgantes aptuveni pirms gada publicēto stāstu "Barankas", un man likās – kaut kas tur ir. Lai gan neapšaubāmi bija jūtama ietekme…

For the most part, we read a work of nonfiction for two intertwined reasons — to learn about a particular subject and to enjoy the intellectual company of the book’s author. I started “ Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School ” because I’d long wanted to know more about the careers and…

L-R: Miley Cyrus and Woody Allen Photo: Amazon Woody Allen has infamously dismissed his own Amazon series A Crisis in Six Scenes , a semi-satirical tale of political strife in the late 1960s, as an afterthought, an obligation or something he did because somebody else told him that TV is where it’s…

Not all that long ago, everybody seemed to be cheering the rowdy resurgence of democracy. Social media was hailed for making our politics more inclusive and participatory. Opinion makers were praising “the wisdom of crowds” and the creativity of the “hive mind.” Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party…

It would probably be fair to call Henry “aimless.” After he graduated from Harvard, he moved back in with his parents, a boomerang kid straight out of a trend piece about the travails of young adults. Despite graduating into a recession, Henry managed to land a teaching job, but two weeks in, he…

Often cited as one of the most influential political economists and social democratic theorists of the twentieth century, Karl Polanyi has – of late – enjoyed an upsurge in popularity. A fact that is in no doubt due to the search for alternatives to neoliberal capitalism. In his book ‘Reconstructing…

Jess Zimmerman’s previous work for The Toast can be found here . I am not a big fan of psychic charlatanry, which often preys on people who are in genuine grief. So when I read about psychic fraud Priscilla Kelly Delmaro, arrested in May for second-degree grand larceny, I should have felt smug about…

After Irony Maggie Doherty Summer 2016 Kathy Acker (via Vol. 1 Brooklyn) Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction by Lee Konstantinou Harvard University Press, 2016, 384 pp. Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism by Rachel Greenwald Smith Cambridge University Press, 2015, 194…

(Spoilers abound. If you haven't readit and want to read it cold, do so. It's been out in the West since1995. Get on that. Actually, this will probably make little sensewithout first reading the book. Or you could read this wikipedia page and it might begin to make sense. This one might help too.…

Donald Trump is not an accident. It’s tempting to see Trump’s rise as something sui generis: something so bizarre, so linked to his own celebrity, that it could never be repeated. Yet it is being repeated: Throughout the Western world, far-right populists are rising in the polls. In Hungary, the…

Leigh Wells Have you heard the story of the architect from Shiraz who designed the world’s most beautiful mosque? No one had ever conjured up such a design. It was breathtakingly daring yet well-proportioned, divinely sophisticated, yet radiating a distinctly human warmth. Those who saw the plans…

Since the Great Recession, a powerful and occasionally terrifying narrative about the state of recent college graduates has emerged: Many young, educated 20-somethings are languishing in the purgatory of unpaid internships. Those who have managed to find jobs earn wages whose meagerness stands in…

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Vai Latvijā vērojams jauns pseidozināšanu vilnis? Kā "ezoteriskās zināšanas" no slēptām, šauram lokam paredzētām mācībām kļuva par populārās kultūras sastāvdaļu, komerciālu produktu, kas tiek piedāvāts visiem? Vai viltus zināšanas šādi kļuvušas par vispārpieņemtām zināšanām un tāpēc – patiesām? Kurā…