Lot to think about in this piece. The core problem is that right-wing media fixates on two or three misrepresented anecdotes every week. Mainstream sources would need to make debunking these stories an entire beat — and would end up giving _...Read More_

I agree that the Economist is showing its real agenda here - "NEOLIBERALISM IS FAILING! HELP! WE MUST SAVE IT!" but to take a simple linear course through history - "the working class is responsible for everything good that has ever _...Read More_

Signals dynamics of discursive reconstruction of ideologico-political lines in post-Trump era. Much of that to come, hard to predict on which topics and which sides the transformations will happen. This particular topic is quite surprising _...Read More_

>"The mass inequality of America’s first Gilded Age thrived on identity-based partisanship, helping extinguish the fires of class rage. In 2021, we’re headed down _...Read More_

>"Utopia can be found in rejection of the utopian dreams of tech companies"

>"After the Carnation Revolution overthrew the dictatorship in 1974, Portugal boasted over four decades with no fascist presence in parliament. But with a far-right anti-migrant candidate likely to be runner-up in today’s presidential _...Read More_

>"The “gentrification-industrial complex” isn’t who anti-growth progressives think it is."

Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an _...Read More_

[https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-islamists-and-wokeists-have-in-common-11599779507?mod=e2fb&fbclid=IwAR2gXo7tibR_TDs7S3m1A6MzkHL0GJIVyiv0ANpoz4uZn9mayDhGQO4Mvx0](https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-islamists-and-wokeists-have-in-common-11599779507?mod=e2fb&fbclid=IwAR2gXo7tibR_TDs7S3m1A6MzkHL0GJIVyiv0ANpoz4uZn9mayDhGQO4Mvx0) >"Adherents of both pursue ideological purity, refuse to engage in _...Read More_

After every great crisis, like corona pandemic opens up many socio-economic ideological aspects of our life. People may involved in ideological battle, but we should not choose the wrong pathway. Sometimes crisis teach us a lot. May God _...Read More_

The GOP’s base now represents a radical white conception of personal liberty, one in which any effort to govern — even common-sense rules to safeguard human life — is disfigured into a form of tyranny.

"We suggest that in metaphor, metonym, and allegory, reality is not merely expediently manipulated to make a rhetorical point, but somehow also really lost."

TL;DR: (1) Things mostly outside our control like genetics, environment, circumstances, etc, essentially luck, play a big part in our success if not the only part. The idea that our society is a meritocracy is false. (2) To top it off, _...Read More_