—The Spectator reviews a new “campus novel”. This is called Seduction Theory and is written by Emily Adrian. Here is the opening paragraph: There is a fine tradition of campus novels that stretches from Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (1945) and Kingsley … Continue reading →| The Evelyn Waugh Society
On The Guardian's "Today in Focus" podcast, listen to Tibet Action Institute's Lhadon Tethong and The Guardian’s South Asia correspondent, Hannah Ellis-Petersen, discuss the battle between Tibetan Buddhists and China over the successor to the Dalai Lama. Listen here: https://www.theguardian.com/n| Tibet Action Institute
To free ourselves from our technofeudal overlords, we must think like Karl Marx. The corporations would asset-strip our brains, but we can take back control A young woman I met recently remarked that it was not so much pure evil that drove her berserk, but rather people, or institutions, with the capacity to do good […] The post Who needs Marx in 2025? The Guardian, July 2025 appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.| Yanis Varoufakis
Oh, to have existed in a period of time named the “Renaissance,” a French word that means “rebirth.” As explained by Brittanica, “it was primarily a time of the revival of Classical learning and wisdom after a long period of cultural decline and stagnation.” The recently enacted biennial budget crafted by the Indiana General Assembly… Read More » The post Newsflash: Teaching fewer things leads to a population that thinks less appeared first on MichaelLeppert.com.| MichaelLeppert.com
Around 140 groups have called for an extension of public comment period over U.S. Forest Service proposal amid questions about safety and impact.| Floodlight
WHAT A MARVELOUS OPPORTUNITY FOR SATIRE: The dust is far from settled about what The New York Times, March 25, 2025, is calling “an extraordinary leak of internal national security deliberations, d…| Simanaitis Says
by Matthew Cantor in The Guardian...The term ‘polycrisis’ has gained traction as we face one disaster after another. It’s overwhelming – but diagnosing the ...| omega.ngo
JD Vance, the US Vice President, told Europeans that their values are no longer America’s values. Pete Hegseth, the US Defence Secretary, added that Europeans “can’t make an assumption that America’s presence will last forever.” Keith Kellog, Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, confirmed that Europe will not have a seat at the table […]| Yanis Varoufakis
by Kate O'Flaherty in The Guardian...Apple is about to launch a ChatGPT-powered version of Siri as part of a suite of AI features in iOS 18. Will this ...| omega.ngo
The latest updates on rendering improvements in Ekioh's multithreaded Flow Browser.| Ekioh