Timothy Stacey is a Lecturer in the Leiden Institute for Area Studies @godsandsods The tantalising slogan, ‘take back control’ will probably be remembered as the maxim of this political moment. It has already been widely credited with winning the Brexit vote. A sense of losing control is one of the strongest predictors of voting for […]
Read MoreSean McBride, Independent writer “The thinking person,” George Orwell wrote in 1937, “by intellect usually left-wing but by temperament often right wing, hovers at the gate of the Socialist fold.” It was his concern that the task of thinking through and adopting socialist views in itself alienated otherwise smart people from their own purposes. Jordan […]
Read MoreThe growing and eating of food – has been turned into a threat. Could Buen Vivir inspire western culture onto a new worldview, creating the necessary public support for a policy away from capitalism, and a social basis to take down the food industry?
Read MoreRejecting the respective excesses of tradition (institutional religious authority) and modernity (rationalist authority), cultural creatives are particularly sensitive to the ecological question and feel the urgent need to, both individually and collectively, adopt new sustainable visions and behaviors to preserve at the same time humanity’s and the planet’s future.
Read MoreIt is not very liberal of a liberal not to critique liberalism but many liberals do not do so
Read MoreMy radical suggestion is that love becomes the yardstick for all security initiatives, all applications of the law and all monetary transactions.
Read MoreIn an age of increased worker exploitation and zero hour contracts, in which rights of workers are increasingly eroded by capitalism and managerialism, the age of the Pop-Up Union may still be to come.
Read MoreThe fear of visible Muslim identity needs to be tackled. At present it is reinforced by policy designed to prevent extremism as well as by media vitriol that present Muslims as a problematic group. These representations lack nuance, creating moral panics that are out of proportion with reality and that cause more hate than they prevent.
Read MoreThe messy middle is the place of affective politics and spiritual activism where a deformalized ‘religious’ and a deformalized ‘secular’ meet in compelling and hopeful ways.
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