Recenzija Foto – Jānis Deinats, jrt.lv 2016. gada 20. septembrī Izdrukas versija Silvija Radzobe: Profesors un vēderdejotājas Par Alvja Hermaņa izrādi "Pakļaušanās" Jaunajā Rīgas teātrī Gaidot pirmizrādi Alvja Hermaņa iestudējumam "Pakļaušanās", kas tapis pēc mūsdienu franču rakstnieka Mišela…

This past Sunday, as most of Russia focused its attention on parliamentary elections, the country’s most popular daily, Kommersant , broke news of a story that, if true, could have consequences that last far beyond this latest round of Duma reshuffling. Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to…

The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens by Samuel Bowles • Yale University Press • 2016 • 272 pages • $27.50 Samuel Bowles’ slim, fascinating, and thought-provoking book, The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens starts with two…

Does Karl Marx still matter? It’s a question most readers of a new biography of Marx would ask—even if they are already steeped in the contentious scholarship about (or the perpetual ideological skirmishes within) the radical left. What relevance can his life and work have in a world where nearly…

Our new issue, “ Rank and File ,” is out now. To celebrate its release, new subscriptions are discounted. T he third installment of the World Cup of Hockey — a meaningless publicity stunt sponsored by the National Hockey League (NHL) and its owners, not the sport’s governing body, the International…

Our new issue, “ Rank and File ,” is out now. To celebrate its release, new subscriptions are discounted. T erms like “ big data ” and “machine learning” have entered the mainstream, and are often presented as solutions to thorny economic and social problems. Much less consideration is given to…

Warning: this post contains spoilers. “H ello, friend.” That’s the first line of Mr. Robot , as its protagonist, Elliot Alderson — a cybersecurity engineer and hacker — hails the viewer before launching into his manifesto: What I’m about to tell you is top-secret. A conspiracy bigger than us all.…

I was sitting in a large meditation hall in a converted novitiate in central Massachusetts when I reached into my pocket for my iPhone. A woman in the front of the room gamely held a basket in front of her, beaming beneficently, like a priest with a collection plate. I duly surrendered my little…

Komentārs Alfonss Muča "Ausma un krēsla", 1899 2016. gada 19. septembrī Izdrukas versija Nesen Rīgas pašvaldības policijas feisbuka profilā parādījās ziņa , kuru vēlāk pārpublicēja arī daži ziņu portāli. Grīziņkalnā pieķerta prostitūta ar klientu Vakar, 4.septembra agrā rīta stundā, Rīgas…

Carla Echevarria, a creative strategist for Facebook, at a “publishing garage” held to help plan an advertising initiative for a client, Reckitt Benckiser. Michael Falco for The New York Times Joao Rodrigues had been listening and holding his tongue. For a day and a half, brand managers, ad agency…

T here is more than one spectre haunting modern Europe: terrorism, the revival of the far right, the instability of Turkey, the fracturing of the EU project. And in mainstream politics, all across the continent, the traditional parties of the left are in crisis. In Germany, the Social Democratic…

How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world I gor Schwarzmann is the German co-founder of Third Wave, a strategy consultancy based in Berlin that works with small-scale industrial manufacturers. The company’s clients range across Europe, the United Kingdom, and the…

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"Daudzus gadus es biju tik lepns, ka mūsu Jaunais Rīgas teātris ir apolitisks," saka Alvis Hermanis. Pārvarējis savas paaudzes likumsakarīgo alerģiju "pret jebkāda veida politiku", režisors iestudējis Mišela Velbeka romānu Pakļaušanās. Velbeks ir viens no retajiem mūsdienu intelektuāļiem, kuram…

A philosopher argues that only some people should get to elect our leaders Could there be a more propitious time to come out, as the title of Jason Brennan’s book announces, Against Democracy ? From the Brexit vote to the Trump nomination, both liberal and conservative bien-pensants are grumbling…

A sign supporting Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in St. Amant, La., on August 21. (REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman) STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND: Anger and Mourning on the American Right By Arlie Russell Hochschild The New Press. 369 pp. $27.95 The white working class is so hot right now. When…

At 3:31 p.m. on Thursday, January 15, 2009, Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger famously performed the miraculous crash landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers and crew aboard. I can only wonder how many subsequent hours elapsed before Tom Hanks’s agent…

Placards at St Paul’s Cathedral, during a protest to occupy the London Stock Exchange, 17 October 2011.Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images I n Jonathan Franzen ’s 2001 novel The Corrections , Chip Lambert liquidates his library. He sells off his collection of Frankfurt School books, as well as “his…

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N in ety-nine years ago, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated, and, after a few months of weak parliamentary rule, the Bolsheviks seized power. We call that seizure the Russian (or October) Revolution, but it might better be designated the Bolshevik coup d’état. A party of 10,000 people gained control of an…

You wake up and wonder: What time is it? Your little touchscreen says 2:54 a.m. Or 7:21 a.m. Or whatever. It is always anytime . And anytime is check-in time. With one ear on your pillow you check the number of likes your latest Facebook post has harvested, the Retweets of your latest birdsong, and…

Relationships are hard, so is comedy, and the intersection of the two is the primordial ooze for You’re the Worst , now entering its third season on FXX. No show on TV has given its audience such a complete insight into people who are adults only in name. The wealth of insecurities on display aren’t…

Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich Robert B. Reich; drawing by James Ferguson Back in 1991, in what now seems like a far more innocent time, Robert Reich published an influential book titled The Work of Nations , which among other things helped land him a cabinet post in…

AUGUST 15, 2016 A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO, while vacationing in South Florida, I was lying on a beach when, all of a sudden, a single-engine Cessna came puttering across the sky, toting an aerial advertisement that read: “THE REAL YOU IS SEXY.” I sat there for a moment blinking in the sun. It was a…

It was a scene out of an Ambien nightmare: a jackal with the face of Mark Zuckerberg stood over a freshly killed zebra, gnawing at the animal’s innards. But I was not asleep. The vision arrived midday, triggered by the Facebook founder’s announcement – in spring 2011 – that ‘The only meat I’m eating…

James Veysey/Camera Press/Redux UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, House of Lords shadow leader Angela Evans Smith, Prime Minister David Cameron, and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn at a memorial service for Labour MP Jo Cox, St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey, London, June 2016…

American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers by Nancy Jo Sales Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein Rania Matar/Institute Danielle, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, 2010; photograph by Rania Matar from her book A Girl and Her Room (2012), which…

Golden was the first race of articulate folk Created by the immortals who live on Olympos. They actually lived when Kronos was king of the sky, And they lived like gods, not a care in their hearts, Nothing to do with hard work or grief, And miserable old age didn’t exist for them. From fingers to…

The narcissist is, according to the internet, empty. Normal, healthy people are full of self, a kind of substance like a soul or personhood that, if you have it, emanates warmly from inside of you toward the outside of you. No one knows what it is, but everyone agrees that narcissists do not have…