Feudalism

The last year in science fiction and fantasy novels saw a welcome mix of debut voices and returning favorites. While genre fiction is often seen as an escapist form of literature (something thats understandably needed in 2019), the best stories often address …

Major questions have been raised about presidential candidate Pete Buttigiegs work for global consulting firm McKinsey, with even the New York Times editorial board demanding that he release the information. After Buttigieg issued a sparse and vague overview …

By Joseph Joyce The time to announce the recipient of this year's "Globie" is finally here. Each year I choose a book as the Globalization Book of the Year. The prize is - alas - strictly honorific and does not come with a monetary reward. But it gives me a…

Its easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you dont change, your field changes around you. - Walter Gilbert Technology is disrupting the way we work. Independent or contract work is hardly a new phenomenon, but the post-global financial cri…

Es iz schwer tzu sein a yid. It is hard to be a Jew. ~Sholem Aleichem When Britains Jews go to the polls next week, they do so at an uncomfortable moment. For the first time in at least a half century, their communityroughly 330,000 citizenshas become a maj…

4.4) Part VIII: Primitive Accumulation: At the end of Part VII, Marx had completed his analysis of how the purpose of capitalism-as-a-system was simply capital accumulation, which produced ever more productivity, wealth, and misery, all three growing together…

Yellow Vest protesters and other public sector workers are holding large scale strikes today throughout France, in protest at President Emmanuel Macrons economic reforms, aiming to make the countrys leader alter his policy on pensions in particular.Journalist…

The authorities in Jammu and Kashmir imposed Section 144 around the mausoleum of National Conference (NC) founder Sheikh Muhamad Abdullah on his 114th birth anniversary on Thursday and barred family members, including incarcerated son Farooq Abdullah and gran…

One of the most common arguments in favor of the existence of billionaires is the “but they give so much to charity” argument. I have a lot of problems with this, and in this video, Anand Giridharadas and Hasan Minhaj go through most of them. When I talk to …

Tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean are rapidly rising after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan met with a Libyan official of the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA), based in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, in Ankara last week.…