Feudalism

In a modern spin on feudalism, the entire editorial board of Bloomberg News is taking a leave of absence … and joining the boss' presidential campaign. But that only dodges the least of the e… Read Full Article »

(This is the last post in a two-part series. You can see Part One here.) The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best social studies lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? In Part One, Carina Whiteside, Denise Fawcett Facey,…

MULTAN: Taunsa police detained Seraiki poet, broadcaster and teacher Mehboob Tabish allegedly for criticising Chief Minister Usman Buzdar during the launch of the book of another Seraiki poet Iqbal Sokri. As per details, the launch of the collected poems of …

REVIEW ESSAYHow to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the Twenty-First Centuryby Erik Olin WrightVerso, 2019, 176 pages The Socialist Manifestoby Bhaskar SunkaraBasic Books, 2019, 256 pages As the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, so too, it seemed, did the dream of soci…

Americas emergence in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries represented a dramatic break from the past. The United States came on the scene with only vestiges of the old European feudal ordermostly in the plantation economy of the Deep South. There was no h…

TAK lapuk dek hujan, tak lokang dek paneh is an untranslatable saying in Negri Sembilan essentially meaning that our traditions will continue for eternity, and indeed this was invoked at the Istiadat Ulangan Penghulu-Penghulu Luak Tanah Mengandung Mengadap la…

Authored by Michael Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, Stiegler insists, however, that authentic thinking and calculative thinking are not mutually exclusive; indeed, mathematical rationality is one of our major prosthetic extensions. But the catastrophe o…

…Ruga is 18th century practice, cant work now By Clifford Ndujihe & Chiebuka Ndujihe Last Monday, we ran the first part of an engaging interview with  Elder Statesman and Pioneer Chairman of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group, NESG, Professor Anya O Anya…

The 2020 presidential field is saturated with candidates decrying wealth inequality and making the argument to soak the rich. One front-runner, for instance, is constantly denouncing the millionaires and the billionaires. Ominously, a New York Times poll foun…

A Big Storm The Day Before Thanksgiving? Mother Nature is a drama queen. Yes, it's been a cold November, and where are we living when 40s feel like sweet relief? In spite of a few feeble clippers, November has been storm-free and snowfall amounts are running…