Review of ‘When the Clock Broke’ by John Ganz John Ganz is a trending young writer on the left with a history bent, and his new book from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, “When the Clock Broke,” is largely a political recapitulation of 1992 in the U.S. His angle is that …
The welfare state: under the wheels of market-liberal populism By Ulrich Thielemann [This article posted on July 1, 2025 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://makroskop.eu/24-2025/wie-der-sozialstaat-unter-die-rader-des-marktlibertaren-populismus-gerat/.] CDU Secretary General Carsten Linnemann wants a “major citizen’s income reform” that goes “to the heart of the matter” – more precisely, …
The BRICS following in Keynes’ footsteps By the editorial team of the Makroskop journal [This article posted on December 5, 2024 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://makroskop.eu/42-2024/die-brics-auf-den-spuren-von-keynes/.] Dear readers In the social sciences, it is almost considered good form to criticize the Global North for exploiting the …
Starve and drive out Le Monde diplomatique – June 2025 [ThisarticlepostedinJune2025istranslatedfromtheGermanontheInternet,https://www.woz.ch/lmd/25-06/aushungern-und-vertreiben/!B3S5SB09QPM9.] “Everyone has become accustomed to hundreds of people being killed in the Gaza Strip on a night of war – the world doesn’t care.” This was recently stated by Knesset member Zvi Sukkot of the Religious Zionism party, which …
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Debates Uncouth Democracy By Jeff Love and Michael Meng [This article posted on 10/9/2016 is available on the Internet, https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/uncouth-democracy/.] The United States has gone mad—a land of extravagant wealth, and now a land of extravagant vulgarity. Trump is the end of democracy, the final sign of a declining superpower …
Debates Who’s Winning? By Fabio Vighi [This article posted on 10/21/2024 is available on the Internet, https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/whos-winning/.] ‘The West has become a totalitarian space – the space of a self-defensive hegemony defending itself against its own weakness.’ (Jean Baudrillard) One of the most frequently referenced scenes in Arthur Penn’s Night …
Debates The Fascist Tendencies of Democracy By Rafael Holmberg [This article posted on 6/9/2025 is available on the Internet, https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-fascist-tendencies-of-democracy/.] “I know what you’re thinking, but it is NOT my mother!” This unprompted reflection by a patient led Freud to the perplexing insight not only that ‘mother’ occupied some unusually …
Trump’s Tariffs: Everything You Wanted to Know about Them but Were Afraid to Ask the Bond Market By Fabio Vighi [This article posted in May 2025 is available on the Internet, https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/trumps-tariffs-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-them-but-were-afraid-to-ask-the-bond-market/.] Everyone’s busy debating whether Donald Trump’s global tariff plan is economic protectionism, geopolitical strategy, electoral propaganda, or the …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/07/06/18877856.php Since the early 1990s, right-wing militias had been increasingly visible in public, especially after the 1995 right-wing terrorist attack in Oklahoma City. The Republican stablishment saw the radical right as a tool it believed it could control while opening the doors to power. As it turned out, the monster …