"The incoherence of these explanations is symptomatic of an administration that equates critical questions with treason." www.equator.org/articles/the...
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"The incoherence of these explanations is symptomatic of an administration that equates critical questions with treason." www.equator.org/articles/the...
"Israel has become the model of impunity to follow, the prodigal son that has been raised up past the image of its father. Its spectacular violence has subdued its regional rivals for now; but military dominance eventually provokes resistance from within and from without."
"The Israeli-US relationship has arguably been much more like a feedback loop. Israel can pursue terror and plunder with full immunity because of America’s unconditional backing – a licence that American politicians envy...Israel has become the model of impunity to follow"
Marco Rubio’s claim that Israel dragged Washington into war have prompted familiar questions about the US-Israeli relationship. But the truth, @seamus-malekafzali.com writes, is that the two rogue states are now full partners in impunity: www.equator.org/articles/the...
Homeland Empire
The amazing Nikhil Pal Singh joins to discuss his concept of Homeland Empire -- the Trump admin's smash-and-grab form of internal/external imperialism -- and how it is shaping global and domestic politics, including the world of sports.
open.spotify.com/episode/5xmw...
One theme of Equator is the post-American world – the end of the era when people everywhere saw the US as a model for their own futures. This memoir by @siddharthadeb.bsky.social, about leaving India for American academia, is a study of global disenchantment:
www.equator.org/articles/fro...
This is a much clearer and smarter take on what is happening in Bangladesh right now than I am seeing elsewhere.
Some deep truths about the Cuban exile community. Beautiful essay.
www.equator.org/articles/the...
Much here that resonates for those of us who came to the US as grad students. But not as much, if like me you ended up in a school with a punk scene and an undergrad student body which was resolutely working class! But worth a read: www.equator.org/articles/fro...
@siddharthadeb.bsky.social on falling in and out of love with US universities: “I did not realise how much of the world I aspired to join was dead or dying by the time I arrived at Columbia.”
Equator's @krithikavaragur talks to the writer @anand_gopal_ about rethinking foreign correspondence, the Syrian revolution and his new book "Days of Love and Rage."
Time: Sunday, 8 March, 1 PM ET / 5 PM GMT on Zoom
Register for free!
www.eventbrite.com/e/how-i-wrot...
In @equatormag.bsky.social, Melinda Cooper discusses how the billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants.
non-stop happenings today. My translation of another one of José Henrique Bortoluci's Generation Democracy pieces is up now on the amazing @equatormag.bsky.social . Essential reading on the fight to save the Amazon: www.equator.org/articles/des...
Melinda Cooper on how “family values“ explain Epstein. It got me thinking on how academia also enables exploitation because it also makes you feel like “family” www.equator.org/articles/eps...
"Viewed from the rainforest, Brazilian democracy is fragile – that is, when it’s not an abject failure."
Read José Henrique Bortoluci's profile on the human rights defender Erasmo Alves Theofilo – a picture of Brazilian democracy as viewed from the violent Amazon.
www.equator.org/articles/des...
This is horrifying but essential reading.
www.equator.org/articles/eps...
"We cannot even imagine a happy world in which winners might not be hateful. Only in those who lose do we feel we might recognise fellow human beings." From one of a pair of powerful Natalia Ginzburg essays (newly translated by Gini Alhadeff) in Equator. www.equator.org/articles/our...
Among topics to be discussed:
-tanistry
-assisted reproductive technologies
-Victorian press mogul W.H. Stead
In Equator's first free Zoom event Melinda Cooper and Quinn Slobodian discuss the revelations of the Epstein files, and what they tell us about the obsessions of America's elites.
Time: Thursday, 26 February, 7 PM ET / Friday, 27 February, 11 AM AEST
Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/epstein-fa...
Fascinating read by Melinda Cooper www.equator.org/articles/eps...
”Anyone who has suffered and fled Stalinism should look out for signs of tyranny in their adopted country – but in practice, or, better yet, in capitalism, that responsibility amounts to a distraction.” The Cuban novelist Carlos Manuel Álvarez reflects on his exile: www.equator.org/articles/the...
Großartiger Essay von Melinda Cooper über die neo-feudalistische Billionärs-Dienstleistungsökonomien inkl. Sex. (Ich glaube, sie unterschätzt die Zusammenhänge zwischen bürgerlicher patriarchaler Kleinfamilie und diesen Feudalhaushalten, aber sonst brilliant.)
www.equator.org/articles/eps...
Melinda Cooper e Quinn Slobodian conversando sobre o ensaio que ela escreveu para a revista @equatormag.bsky.social
sobre os arquivos Epstein e a economia psi dos bilionários do patriarcado.
Join Equator next week for an online conversation between Quinn Slobodian and Melinda Cooper about her essay on the Epstein Files and the psychology of billionaire patriarchs. Free — 7pm Thursday night Eastern Time / 11am Friday morning Canberra Time: www.eventbrite.com/e/epstein-fa...
Fascinating, wide ranging piece by Melinda Cooper. Strongly recommend.
www.equator.org/articles/eps...
“Violence is not power. Dominance without hegemony is dangerous, but fragile. Democratic ferment, unlike kinetic action, tends to be slow, until it isn’t.”
www.equator.org/articles/hom...
‘Silicon Valley pronatalism is generally understood as eugenic ..Musk and his ilk are steeped in the pseudoscience of transhumanism – less concerned with the elimination of error than the exaltation of exceptional deviance.’ Melinda Cooper shockingly on the money www.equator.org/articles/eps...
As always Melinda Cooper's work is impeccable and so astute. "Epstein’s victims experienced the rule of master and servant not just as economic but sexual violence. They were the first to name and resist our emergent political order." www.equator.org/articles/eps...
'Just as Epstein wanted to close off all escape routes to his female victims, Trump and his tech reactionaries want to shut down all alternatives to the household economy and turn the presidency into a founder-controlled family firm.'
www.equator.org/articles/eps...
#Epstein #Trump #MaxPatriarchy
I'll be having a live online conversation about it with her for @equatormag.bsky.social next Thursday.
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/epstein-fa...