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Western philosophers have not, on the whole, regarded Buddhist thought with much enthusiasm. As a colleague once said to me: ‘It’s all just mysticism.’ This attitude is due, in part, to ignorance. But it is also due to incomprehension. When Western philosophers look East, they find things they do…

'The biggest modern lie is the one told by the Steve Jobses of this world: that, career-wise, we must do what we love in order to experience true happiness.' Photograph: Jeff Chiu/AP I n his usual prescient fashion, Guy Debord once lamented that “young people everywhere have been allowed to choose…

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is the cartoonishly evil leader of the so-called Islamic State. His movement trades in fear – beheading aid workers, raping and enslaving women, using terror to scatter the conscript armies of Iraq and Syria. Yet he holds no fear for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. For…

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Graffiti depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin extending a hand to the Ukrainian people on a wall in the Crimean city of Simferopol The signs of the times are everywhere. Estonia is erecting a 2.5-meter-high metal mesh fence reinforced with barbed wire along much of its border with Russia —and…

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Vivienne Charles has a problem: the heroine of Lilah Pace’s erotic romance Asking for It (2015) can experience sexual satisfaction only if she imagines herself being raped, which causes her endless shame. Enter the rugged, mysterious Jonah Marks, who ‘looks as though someone took the macho ideal of…

A S I NOT ONLY LIVE in a federal prison but am also currently being held once again in a 23-hour-a-day lockdown punishment cell due to my incorrigible behavior, I haven’t been in a position to directly follow what I gather has been a very edifying net-driven controversy over Jonathan Franzen and his…

By 1978 Exxon’s senior scientists were telling top management that climate change was real, caused by man, and would raise global temperatures by 2-3C.Photograph: Pat Sullivan/AP I ’m well aware that with Paris looming it’s time to be hopeful, and I’m willing to try. Even amid the record heat and…

‘This is supposed to be about my job, not the meaning of life,’ says Peggy to Don toward the end of the US TV series Mad Men . Don has been gathering ideas for a speech to the McCann Erickson advertising agency that he says has to be visionary, like the Gettysburg Address. Peggy tries to bring him…

Uz rasismu var raudzīties no dažādām pozīcijām. Varam raudzīties no juridiskā viedokļa, proti, kā rasismu definē starptautiskās konvencijas, nacionālā likumdošana. Varam lūkoties uz to kā fiziskās antropoloģiskās kategoriju, varam to skatīt caur sociālo zinātņu prizmu. Katrā no šīm nozarēm ir savi…

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Rapper T.I. weighed in on who he would elect in the Presidential election. He had a few choice words for Hillary Clinton. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. "Rapper T.I. won’t be picking a female…

‘A Nobel prize in economics implies that the human world operates much like the physical world.’Photograph: Jasper Rietman B usiness as usual. That will be the implicit message when the Sveriges Riksbank announces this year’s winner of the “Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel”, to…

Getty Images HP. Cisco. Dell. EMC. IBM. Oracle. Think of them as the walking dead. Oh, sure, they’ll shuffle along for some time. They’ll sell some stuff. They’ll make some money. They’ll command some headlines. They may even do some new things. But as tech giants, they’re dead. This was driven home…

Oprah Is Not Your Friend: A Q&A with Nicole Aschoff Rachel Cohen ▪ August 18, 2015 Bill and Melinda Gates, 2014 © Suzie Katz via Flickr Nicole Aschoff, the managing editor at Jacobin magazine, is author of The New Prophets of Capital , a book that examines the modern mythmaking central to…

Less Work, More Time Madeleine Schwartz ▪ September 25, 2015 It’s a cliché of feminist media to bemoan the “time bind” that keeps women tied to the double duties of working and parenting. The solution offered to this problem, however, often boils down to simply working more. “Don’t lose sight of…

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Once again, it's time to celebrate Columbus Day. Yet, the stunning truth is: If Christopher Columbus were alive today, he would be put on trial for crimes against humanity. Columbus' reign of terror , as documented by noted historians, was so bloody, his legacy so unspeakably cruel…

New Left Review 95, September-October 2015 wolfgang streeck WHY THE EURO DIVIDES EUROPE To understand the conflicts that have erupted in and around the Eurozone over the past five years, it may be helpful to begin by revisiting the concept of money. It is one that figures prominently in Chapter Two…

Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller An advertisement for Rolls-Royce from the late 1950s Very few economists foresaw the great recession of 2008–2009. Why not? Economists have long assumed that human beings are “rational,” but…

Krievijas iebrukums Ukrainā un informatīvais karš pret Rietumiem pērn mudināja Latvijas sabiedrisko televīziju būtiski paplašināt ziņu un analītisko raidījumu klāstu krievu valodā. Pagājušā gada septembrī LTV Krievu ziņu redakciju sāka vadīt pieredzējusī žurnāliste Olga Proskurova. Tagad viņa…

Taču neba «Saskaņas» deputāte viena pati pieņēma skandalozos grozījumus Izglītības likumā un tagad vienpersoniski ieviesīs cenzūru. Saeima diskutēja par viņas priekšlikumiem vairākus mēnešus, un likuma grozījumus atbalstīja 64 deputāti no simta. Un, pat ja šajās gandrīz divās trešdaļās Saeimas…

Newsweek Polska: Книга «Соседи» Яна Томаша Гросса (Jan Tomasz Gross) вышла 15 лет назад. Все эти годы мы жили в уверенности, что убийство поляками 300 еврейских соседей в Едвабне — это чудовищное, но единичное событие. Мирослав Трычик: Эта книга положила начало дискуссии о соучастии поляков в…

Vladimir V. Putin waiting to speak to the United Nations General Assembly on Monday. Seth Wenig/Associated Press Vladimir V. Putin came to the United Nations General Assembly on Monday to demand that Russia be taken seriously and treated as an equal partner by the world’s great powers. In…

Looks like South Park ’s perfecting its long game. This shouldn’t be a surprise, really. Recent seasons (especially last year) have leaned increasingly on drawn-out stories that get more complex in their humor and commentary as time goes on. Seeing Randy Marsh don a hideous wig and repeat “I am…

Kaspars Kļaviņš (Dr. hist.) ir vēstures un starpkultūru menedžmenta profesors Emirātu Tehnoloģiju koledžā Abū Dabī. Pēdējā laikā, dzīvojot un strādājot Apvienotajos Arābu Emirātos, Kaspars Kļaviņš daudz rakstījis par Tuvo Austrumu (sevišķi arābu) kultūras tradīcijām, sociāli-ekonomiskiem un…