Author Archives: Michael Wehle

Frankly, I don’t think that political awareness is going to prove the best medicine for our current malady. Most people know that financial dictatorship is destroying their life; the problem is knowing what to do about it. It is possible … Continue reading →

This is by Corita Kent, 1967. I grew up with a framed print over the sofa in my family’s living room. The War, by which anybody and everybody meant The Vietnam War, was ever a constant. It was there, a … Continue reading →

During the next few days he realised how isolated he was. It was no one’s fault, he thought. He had simply got what he had asked for. His friends had become strangely dim and colourless. Not one of them had … Continue reading →

France 24: France has ordered Russian journalist Xenia Fedorova to leave the country, the interior ministry said on Wednesday, amid accusations that she has spread Kremlin propaganda through French television and radio ahead of next year’s presidential election. France has … Continue reading →

I have never read before that I may expect a response within 60 business days. This is from a unit of the United States Government which “is committed to responding to your message in a timely manner”.

In Modernity and the Holocaust, Zygmunt Bauman argues that for all the incontestable novelty of the Nazi genocide against the Jews, its essential message lies in what it tells us about modernity and its peculiar mindset, rationality and institutions, thus … Continue reading →

Wolfgang Streeck, Jacobin: Noch grundsätzlicher ließe sich fragen, was ein Staat seinen Bürgern, die auf seinen Befehl hin ihr Leben lassen sollen, an Bemühungen schuldet, den Krieg, dem sie zum Opfer fallen könnten, gar nicht erst stattfinden zu lassen. Hier … Continue reading →