Click Here to Read: A Bird With Feathers: I am just a human body, not as good looking as I once was, but not yet the small gathering of ash I will be’ by Anne Roiphe on the Tablet website on February 19, 2021.
Bird on a Plum Tree by Kano Naonobu. Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: Bill Gates: Rich nations should shift entirely to synthetic beef: We spoke to the Microsoft cofounder about his new book, the limits of his optimism, the tech breakthroughs and energy policies we need—and how his thinking on climate change has evolved.
by James Temple on February 14, 2021.
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Populism Saturday 12:00 PM EST 20 February 2021
“Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.” – James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 10
Populism refers to the political mobilization of “the people” against a perceived elite caste of professional politicians. And whereas a corps of elected representatives was Madison’s and Hamilton’s buffer against the tyranny of factions, from time to time the political class may come to be viewed as insufficiently attentive to the needs of their constituents and then become the target and nidus that creates a populist movement.
What causes such mass movements and are they usually kept in check by the designs laid out in the Federalist Papers? What sorts of perceived failures on the part to the ruling class may provoke such movements, and when do these factors lead to right- versus left-wing populism? When do such movements form around notions of nationalism, classism, religion, xenophobia, or domestic oppression? Do anomie, alienation, or social humiliation play a role? What has been the effect of social media in catalyzing populist movements around the Continue reading Populism online with the Helix Center
Click Here to Read: Mysteries of massive holes forming in Siberian permafrost unlocked by scientists By Katie Hunt on the CNN website on February 17, 2021.
The walls of this immense crater look as though they could have been scooped out of ice cream, but for the protruding ends of plant roots. And at more than 85 meters (275 feet) tall in places, Batagaika’s cliff-faces keep growing while the crater below becomes deeper and wider. Batagaika Crater has formed as rising temperatures have thawed the permafrost in Siberia. Image: NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
IPTAR PRESENTS RANJANA KHANNA, PHD TRANSLATIONS, GESCHLECHT: ON SEXUAL DIFFERENCE, POSTCOLONIAL THOUGHT AND THE WORLDING OF PSYCHOANALYSIS DISCUSSANT: SAM SEMPER, PHD CLINICAL PRESENTER: AZEEN KHAN, PHD MODERATOR: ANNA FISHZON, PHD
SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 2021 Continue reading IPTAR PRESENTS RANJANA KHANNA, PHD TRANSLATIONS, GESCHLECHT: ON SEXUAL DIFFERENCE, POSTCOLONIAL THOUGHT AND THE WORLDING OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
