Erik Baker is always a great read. This is splendid
"While plenty of American scions will continue to go to college for fun or for Wall Street connections, it is not clear that the gentry of the asset economy will feel the same need for moral cultivation that possessed their nineteenth-century predecessors." harpers.org/archive/2024...
The future of college in the asset economy
There’s a direct connection between the Southport riots and Elon Musk. Not that he knows or cares. My column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The X owner’s commitment to free speech absolutism contributed to a whirlwind of false reporting around the perpetrator’s identity. Why does he seem to care so little about the truth?
Brilliant summer sun..🌞 Let's stay indoor and write a thesis..:)
Béla Tarr’s brooding masterpiece of a town sleepwalking into tyranny www.theguardian.com/film/article...
Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky’s 2000 film moves slowly around a small town where a very strange circus has arrived. Its eerie power has only grown in a time of rising fascism
"You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie." --Rosie O'Donnell, "Sleepless in Seattle" "You don't want to have a government. You want to have a government on a TV show." --me, right now
Good luck today, UK. At the end of today, I'll tell my friends in Turkey that we have a socialist government in the UK! Unfortunately, I can't vote today -not yet- but my only wish is that: please, as little number of Reform UK seat as possible 🙏 (hopefully none). The rest is OK.
is also shown beside the corrupt New York mayor Jimmy Walker: both are wagging their fingers in the same way, two mendacious leaders confidently assuring onlookers of their sincerity."
Brecht exhibition in London... "What is clear from the pictures Brecht collected is that he was fascinated by gestures – and how they could be used and abused. We see people begging for food, soldiers embracing loved ones before heading off to the front. Hitler+ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Throughout his life, the great German playwright made punky montages that explored how fascism infested the country he had to flee. Why have they taken so long to come to light?
This doesn't feel as scary as it is because it's almost certain that Conservatives are going loose the election. But, actually, this is one of the most authoritarian policy recommendations after immigration, aiming at reshaping society. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s campaign promise to revive national service for young Britons came under immediate scrutiny over how the £2.5 billion ($3.2 billion) plan would be funded and enforced.