GABRIEL ROCKHILL—Given the nature of these political positions and their amplification by the bourgeois cultural apparatus, one might assume that the thinker in question is a right-wing ideologue promoted by imperialist think tanks and the U.S. national security state. On the contrary, however, this is a commentator that anyone perusing online for radical theory or even Marxism is likely to encounter almost immediately, because he is one of the most visible intellectuals taken to represent the Left: Slavoj Žižek.
CLASS STRUGGLE
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EDITOR—John Oliver discusses freight trains and railroads, how they’ve put profits over safety, and, crucially, what shows he watched as a child that explain…everything.
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Congress jawbones university presidents to compel compliance with Israeli propaganda. They fold without a fight.
7 minutes readEDITOR—A few days ago Congressional inquisitors dragged three Ivy League university presidents before a special committee with the squalid purpose of jawboning them into compliance with restrictions on free speech in the name of protecting Jews from an imaginary genocide when a real one, but of Palestinians, is actually being conducted by the Israelis in broad daylight. The interrogation of the university administrators was uniformly rude, cynical, and McCarthyesque, but no one seemed to note, and no one, including the humiliated uttered a single word in defense of the First Amendment, which the political hacks conducting the inquisition were clearly running roughshod over.
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EDITOR—If you have wondered why all of a sudden TV audiences are being flooded with commercials that improbably include every race under the sun and every hue, gender, sexual orientation, and color that nature created, but rarely whites, or straight couples, Garland Nixon has the answer: it’s all a cynical ploy by the US ruling class to sell the utterly ridiculous idea that the American empire has already built a totally (and absurdly) sexually liberated, multi-racially harmonious and happily integrated society.
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‘The Horror! the Horror!’, Revisited in Palestine
14 minutes readPEPE ESCOBAR—To dominate assorted “primitive” peoples, Britannia replaced the iron and the sword with trade. Like any monotheistic faith, they believed there was only one way to be; one way to drink your tea; one way to play the game – any game. Everything else was non-civilized, savage, brute, at best providing raw materials and acute headaches.