#Individualism

Martin Jacques

martjacques

1/8 Britain is in almost complete lockdown. Nine months since the first. Europe is closing its borders to the British. Across Europe the pandemic is worsening. The US has over

Justhipper

Justhipper

As an American living in the UK for over 20 years, there are some fundamental things about American culture and the American mindset that Brits don’t really understand. It’s obvious

john milbank

johnmilbank3

Typically excellent piece from AR. Macron’s crucial combination of resistance to Political Islamism with new active European engagement in Africa (effectively if benignly neo-imperial) very much accords with the last

Philip Loring

ConserveChange

This pandemic is spiraling out of control, and while it seems comfortable to blame it on specific people, we have to call it what it is--perhaps the biggest failure of

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

Adam Curtis is a brilliant documentarian, and films like Hypernormalization and series like All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace had a profound effect on my thinking about politics,

Keith Ng

keith_ng

I've spent a lot of time thinking about the conflicts that took place during lockdown.No doubt some of it came out of straight tribal politics, but the culture wars/old school

Dr. Jacquelyn Gill

JacquelynGill

I’m on the board of a non-profit, and we hired anti-racism consultants to do an assessment of our culture and practices. One thing that came up is this notion of

bue rübner

BueRubner

In neoliberal ideology, the capitalist is a worker ("CEOs deserves their salaries for hard work and rare skills") and the worker is a capitalist ("enhance and maximize your human capital").

Nick Reeves 3.5% #FBPE #ProgressiveAlliance

nickreeves9876

1/ Many Labour folk say the Tories will own the Brexit failures. This is wishful thinking. Leavers will be told that all the problems are caused by the EU and

Maddie McClouskey

soundofmaddie

As long as the American theatre industry relies on classism to exist, we will continue to cycle through problematic white people's non-apologies from plucky personalities who love the works of

Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych

Nick_Carmody

…the Us-vs.-Them dynamic created by Christian identity politics…..becomes exacerbated by an ever-increasing level of dysfunctional competitiveness….that is driven by American individualism……which is fueled by “American Exception

“Dont Flatter yourself Neon Earrings”

lilrednacho

I fully believe that you can be an introvert/loner and still invest in the collective good and community.In fact, recognizing autonomy and spatial boundaries is a defining quality of living

Lawrence Glickman

LarryGlickman

This persistence of this campaign message since the New Deal is something to behold. But rather than juxtaposing "socialism" with an opposite--such as "free enterprise" or "individualism"--Loeffler here offers

Melissa R. Poe

mpoetree

The backdrop of 2020 protests against police & our reckoning w/racism is "a parched landscape of stagnant progress toward racial parity, half a century after the passage of landmark Civil

🔥 Kareem Carr 🔥

kareem_carr

DURING THE PANDEMIC, we scientists made a lot of science communication mistakes. One big problem is there are at least four possible ways for a scientist to have a conversation

hannah anderson

sometimesalight

Got a ton of thoughts about #netflix _Cuties_ fiasco but mostly remembering that my mom wouldn't let me join dance b/c "little girls shouldn't wear makeup." HEAR ME OUT: I'm

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