ClicK Here to Read: Einstein and Freud’s ‘Why War?’ Revisited: Why Anti-War Efforts Go Nowhere By Robert J. Burrowes in the Sri Lanka Guardian on April 18, 2022.
Category: Politics
The End of Progressive Intellectual Life
Click Here to Read: The End of Progressive Intellectual Life: How the foundation-NGO complex quashed innovative thinking and open debate, first on the American right and now on the center left BY Michael LInd on the Tablet website on April 12, 2022.
Ford Foundation Building. Image: Kenlarry. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
American Occupation: Brave dissenters willing to defy an oppressive orthodoxy are our country’s best hope
Room 222 and Room Round Table
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EDITORIAL
Struck Anew
Shock occasions change. Five years ago ROOM flashed into being as an immediate response to the 2016 US election. Psychoanalysts who had never written before felt compelled to write.
ROOM has remained a participatory community platform, grounded in a psychoanalytic understanding of how change happens. Each issue archives a new moment. Each is a “working-through” of that which has already passed.
But now we are struck anew. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine occurred during the final weeks of production of this anniversary issue. Still, the questions posed by the contributors in ROOM 2.22 are eerily prescient and speak collectively for all of us. Each looks toward a future none can envision.
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One Reason Russia Is Struggling in Ukraine
In Ukraine, a long history of Russian crimes against Jews
Click Here to Read: In Ukraine, a long history of Russian crimes against Jews by Benjamin Ivry on the Forward website on February 28, 2022.Religious
Jews in Khorostkiv, small town in Ternopil region of western Ukraine, in 1917 during times First World War. Hasids. Hasidic Jews of eastern Galicia (west Ukraine, then still Austro-Hungarian empire until 1918) Author Unknown. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Avraham Stern, the Warrior-Poet killed by the British
Click Here to Read: Avraham Stern, the Warrior-Poet killed by the British: Eighty years after his death, what is the source of the increased interest in his life and views? Daniel Gordis on the Substack website on February 14, 2022.
Photo of Avraham Stern (1907-1942), leder of the extremist zionist organisation Lehi and former member of the direction of Irgun. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
