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Wanting to Be Something Else
by Adam Shatz Who could resist the charms, or doubt the importance, of a liberal, secular, Turkish Muslim writing formally adventurous, learned novels about the passionate collision of East and West?...
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The Darwin Show
by Steven Shapin from The London Review of Books It has been history’s biggest birthday party. On or around 12 February 2009 alone – the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, ‘Darwin Day’ –...
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Evangelicalism and the Contemporary Intellectual
A panel discussion with Malcolm Gladwell, Christine Smallwood, and James Wood, moderated by Caleb Crain. Watch here.
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In the next decade, I hope to become more radical
by Costas Douzinas from The Guardian How different things looked in 1900 and 2000. The end of the 19th century was drowned in fin de siècle gloom. The end of the 20th century was, on the contrary,...
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Untitled Video on Lynne Stewart and Her Conviction, The Law, and Poetry...
On February 10, 2005, Lynne Stewart was convicted of providing material support for a terrorist conspiracy. She is the first lawyer to be convicted of aiding terrorism in the United States. Stewart...
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‘First they called me a joker, now I am a dangerous thinker’ // Slavoj Zizek...
Slavoj Zizek is an unusual philosopher with unfashionably inflexible left-wing views. He also loves Hollywood classics. The 59-year-old academic has written more than 30 books on subjects as diverse as...
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The Pictures of War You Aren’t Supposed to See
By Chris Hedges from truthdig.com War is brutal and impersonal. It mocks the fantasy of individual heroism and the absurdity of utopian goals like democracy. In an instant, industrial warfare can kill...
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Toward a Theory of Surprise
by Chris Bachelder from Believer Three mornings a week I drop off my three-and-a-half-year-old daughter at her daycare center. We have a routine. First we read a book, then we hug, kiss, high five, and...
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The Courtesy of God
by Garret Keizer from Lapham’s Quarterly The devil you say These days what the Epistle of James says about believing in God—that the devils believe in him too, ergo beware of taking too much credit for...
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Rebuilding Afghanistan
by Tariq Ali from the London Review of Books blog P.J.Tobia’s photographs of these monstrous buildings in Kabul convey only part of the horror. Their location is not too far from the slum dwellings...
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Inhuman Thoughts // by Asher Seidel
Inhuman Thoughts is a philosophical exploration of the possibility of increasing the physiological and psychological capacities of humans to the point that they are no longer biologically,...
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Our role in Haiti’s plight
by Peter Hallward from The Guardian Any large city in the world would have suffered extensive damage from an earthquake on the scale of the one that ravaged Haiti’s capital city on Tuesday afternoon,...
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Badiou/Zizek: Philosophy in the Present
To mark our comeback, after a long period of inactivity, here’s a copy of Philosophy in the Present by Alain Badiou & Slavoj Zizek.
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Peter Hallward on “Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of...
from Democracy Now Haitian President Rene Preval said Sunday that the death toll from the earthquake could reach 300,000 once all the bodies are recovered from the rubble. We speak to Peter Hallward,...
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Why Google is the Nike of the internet
by Alexandros Stavrakas from The Guardian Google decided two weeks ago to shut down its hitherto self-censoring search service in China. This allegedly costly gesture, intended as a bold statement...
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Thatcher, Thatcher, Thatcher
by John Gray from the London Review of Books There wasn’t anything inevitable about David Cameron’s rise. If Kenneth Clarke had stirred himself into running something like a campaign when competing for...
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The end of politics and the defence of democracy
by Costas Douzinas In this month of the ‘Greek passion’ one thing is certain. The country will never be the same again. But while the commentators, academics and ‘experts’ discuss endlessly the...
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The End of Politics (2): Europe
by Costas Douzinas How different does Europe look today from ten years ago. In 2000, influential commentators hailed the dawn of the ‘new European century’ to replace the atrocious ‘American’ 20th...
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Obama’s War
A talk by Tariq Ali in New York on Monday April 19th – organised by the London Review of Books Download: obamas-war-tariq-ali.mp3 If the player doesn’t work, click below: Obama’s War – Tariq Ali
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Jacqueline Rose on the Dreyfus Affair
Jacqueline Rose’s talk at the Asia Society on April 21 – organised by the London Review of Books on their 30th anniversary. Rose discusses parallels of the Affair with today’s political predicaments,...
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The Greek Crisis – Politics-Economics-Ethics
A debate to be held at the Birkbeck Institute of Humanities on May 5th, Wednesday 5th May 6.30pm – Room B04, 43 Gordon Sq. Speakers: Constantinos Tsoukalas, Emeritus Professor, University of Athens...
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Beg, Borrow or Steal: the Greek Crisis
by Alexandros Stavrakas The commentary on the Greek crisis has predictably descended into a spectacle of cheap moralisation. Over the past months, we have been bombarded with accusatory tirades aimed...
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The Greek Crisis – Politics-Economics-Ethics
Listen here to the debate at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, held on May 5th. Speakers: • Stathis Kouvelakis, Kings College, London • Kevin Featherstone, Director, Hellenic Observatory, LSE...
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Greek debt crisis: Let’s not return to status quo
by Alexandros Stavrakas from: The Guardian If by “hope” we mean a feeling of yearning and expectation for something to happen, and by “change” we mean an improvement of our present condition, then this...
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