Blogs about Politics

In India, popular movements, not elections, will bring transformative change. Image credit Manuel Lopez for the World Economic Forum via Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Deed. This article is from an upcoming issue of Amandla! as …

In the not-at-all-expected announcement that he was throwing his hat in the ring for Islington North, Paul Mason said something that rings true about the state of British politics. He argued the incoming Labour government …

FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE. EVERYBODY BELIEVES THEY ARE ON “THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY.” Ridiculing the absurd Democrat belief that they know how the …

I’ve published a new academic article in Economic and Political Weekly on Gandhi’s attempt to recover the varna system so as to generate time for spiritual and civic activity and produce an Indian subject capable …

Tense, emotional climate science-fiction that doesn’t quite come together by Kevin Fox, Jr. This piece was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, the film being covered …

(I am still elbow-deep in the guts of The Regicide Report, hence paucity of recent blog entries.) I must admit that I used to be a big fan of conspiracy theories—or applied psychoceramics, as we …

The Conservative MP for Great Grimsby adds that she is a "traditional, northern Conservative" and calls on the Government get more people off welfare and into work "to mobolise the British population." The post “Reform …

The role of parliament in authorising the use of military force has been much debated in recent years, and most recently due to airstrikes against targets in Yemen. The Unit hosted an event with three …

The historian Arno Mayer, who had such an influence on my work and eventually became a friend, has died at 97. He wrote books on everything from the French Revolution to the First World War …

A preview of our Spring 2024 issue.

Sunday Mailbag Some very good letters about polling, among other subjects. Click here for full story

Alex Garland’s Civil War puts the front lines of his titular conflict in Charlottesville. The problem is that fact was already stranger than his fiction. Why Charlottesville? I am asked this often by people still …

Thanks to neoliberalism, government in the UK feels like one long trick played on the people. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th May 2024. The news should have stopped us in our tracks. …

I grew up, I think, at the climax of the Enlightenment, which had begun several centuries earlier. By Enlightenment I mean above all the idea that human reason could improve human life, economically, medically, and …

It’s the ides of May, almost. What’s this? I’m writing mostly at a “drafts blog” these days. I publish occasional roundups, with excerpts of that writing here. This post will be a roundup of March …

Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for …

A question: if universities and colleges ‘should’ condemn Hamas’s morally abhorrent attack, why ‘shouldn’t’ they also condemn Israel’s morally abhorrent war of revenge?

Keeping silent, while a genocide is in full swing for all to see, is not good for social cohesion. These days any expression of grief over the genocide in Gaza is regarded as a threat …

I’m taking a break in Minneapolis, with just two missions: dropping off an old pocket watch for repair, and meeting some entomologists. Caliber Works Watch Repair was an interesting outfit. They only have limited hours, …

Image via Big Serge Thought The good folk at the Institute for the Study of War can’t understand why so many people think the U.S. is losing in Ukraine. The skepticism comes from all directions …