Feudalism

For two centuries the left was understandably relaxed about time. The arrow of time, which in nature produces complex systems out of simple ones, had replaced feudalism with capitalism, the proletariat and technological progress. In the process it produced Ma…

A movie a decade in the making, director Huang Huang’s Wushu Orphan, is a darkly comic tale of misfits in a martial arts academy.  At the New York Asian Film Festival, director Huang sat exclusively with LMD to talk about mixing martial arts, gallows humor, a…

A movie a decade in the making, director Huang Huang’s Wushu Orphan, is a darkly comic tale of misfits in a martial arts academy.  At the New York Asian Film Festival, director Huang sat exclusively with LMD to talk about mixing martial arts, gallows humor, a…

Socialism is a rich tradition of political thought and practice, the history of which contains a vast number of views and theories, often differing in many of their conceptual, empirical, and normative commitments. In his 1924 Dictionary of Socialism, Ange…

Dorasaani, written and directed by KVR Mahendra, is essentially a love story thats as old as time itself. But what makes it impressive is the soul that Mahendra infuses into the narrative and the world he creates around the two protagonists - Raju and Devaki.…

Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Alongside and consistent with other privilege- and power-serving missions, so-called mainstream corporate medias role is to keep the populace focused as best it can on relatively trivial matters and diverted from the most urgen…

SECURE SYNOPSIS: 08 JULY 2019 NOTE: Please remember that following answers are NOT model answers. They are NOT synopsis too if we go by definition of the term. What we are providing is content that both meets demand of the question and at the same time gives…

Photo by Rich Pedroncelli / AP Above: Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, speaks at a rally after her measure to limit when companies can label workers as independent contractors was approved by a Senate committee, in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, J…

Presented by Grocery Manufacturers Association THE BUZZ: THE GIG DEBATE Jeremy reports on the latest legislative battle from Sacramento: When it comes to the debate over gig workers and the California economy, it can feel simultaneously like a lot has change…

Viewed from the perspective of geological history, our current climatic and economic conditions are unusual. For most of the last 60 million years, the climate has been wildly unstable. It was only 10,000 years ago that it settled into its current stable stat…