4d29` "Just Peace Ukraine" returns for the Whitsun term
Martin Curt [2024d29] Hope. Help. Donate. Pray.
A letter from the publisher —
G’day cobbers!
In the 303rd year of Pyotr Romanov's empire, in the 531st week of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, and on the 795th day of the Russo-Ukrainian War, Kyiv is in Ukrainian hands.
In the last issue, I wrote about the crying need for better defence systems for Ukraine; and Heretico of Primapril, in a short essay called Philby, Putin & Jeeves, conjectured about what moves he likes of Trump, Trumpians, Putin and Medvedchuk.
One reader, from Meanjin, offered another explanation for some “rusted-on Trumpians’” adherence to DJT :—
… so many of them are achingly poor, mistrustful of 'the powers that be', and prefer someone who gets down and dirty especially towards the elite. "He is a crook, but he's our crook." And unfortunately they think he cares about them. / When Hillary Clinton was campaigning and spoke of the importance of women in leadership roles, a commentator pointed out that in the rust belt, white women were too preoccupied with surviving to worry about equal rights.
And a reader in Tasmania responded to my plea for Ukraine to have parity of defensive weapons with the Bibi government :—
I can see that it would be good for … Ukraine to be supported as Israel has been supported but I weep at the fact the world supports Israel at all. The two situations should not be compared. / The apartheid and genocide that Israel has committed and is committing has been going on for decades and it is unbelievable and unforgivable that we think by supporting Israel it is a good thing for the free world.
There is, of course, a big literature about the Bibi Government and Hamas and an enormous literature about Jews and Samaritans and the Holy Land. Here are some thoughts of Dr Arun Kapil, a political scientist (or, as we used to say at UQ, a student of government) who teaches mostly at a university in Paris ,,,
¶Arun
☼The Israel-Hamas war at day 205
And essays from War on the Rocks about civil defence in Sweden, which I hope is of interest to Australasian readers, and from Mick Ryan on the Russo-Ukrainian War as at 24 April.
☼¶ War on the Rocks
In from the Cold: Rebuilding Sweden’s Civil Defense for the NATO Era
¶Mick Ryan
☼Ukraine Gets Long Range ATACMs. It will enhance its capacity for operational strike, but is not a silver bullet
Cheers,
Martin.
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+... and in the Left corner ...+
(For everyone, but perhaps of special interest to Social Democrats, Bolshevik imperialists, and other lefties)
¶maksym.eristavi
☼Russian Colonialism, Exposed: Finland 1939-1940
☼russian colonialism 101: it is not just putin, it is the russians. russian rulers come and go, russian colonialism stays the same.
☼¶ _People & Nature_
Palestine, Ukraine and the crisis of empires. — By Simon Pirani. ‘Putin’s regime is a frankenstein monster that has turned against the American empire that once fostered it. Netanyahu’s government is a different kind of monster, highly dependent on its American master, that protects it as it lays waste to Gaza.’
No path to peace in Ukraine through this fantasy world. — ‘The “campist” case is made by literally ignoring what is actually going on in Ukraine, and Russia, and focusing – often exclusively – on the political and diplomatic shenanigans in western countries.’
☼¶ The European Council / Council of the European Union
Think Tank reports on Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine
¶Nick Cohen
☼How to revive Britain after the Tories and Brexit have battered it into the ground — The Lowdown interview with Will Hutton
+Wayfarers' Watch+
(For everyone, but especially for people interested in religion and theology)
¶N.T. Wright
☼N.T Wright on the Bible's Most Misunderstood Verse. Tom Wright with Russell Moore
Are you puzzled by talk, mostly from some Protestant christians, about “the Rapture” (not of the thrush who sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture), then Tom Wright has a plausible explanation :—
☼What do we mean by heaven, the Resurrection of Jesus and the rapture? Ask NT Wright Anything
☼¶ ☼Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University — Public Orthodoxy
When Theology Fuels the War: False Prophecy and State Policy in "The Present and Future of the Russian World" Document
by Paul L. Gavrilyuk
¶Solrunn Nes
☼The Doubting of Thomas; excerpted from my book, The Mystical Language of Icons.
¶Michael Warren Davis
☼The Work of a Christian: On the Prayer of Saint Ephraim.
+Greensleeves+
(On the world-room and its conservation, but also a magazine of interesting matters which don’t fit into the earlier sections)
New on People & Nature today:
¶’Liberal Patriot’ Sbstck writers
☼Why [US] Democrats Will Become Energy Realists. There is no alternative.
☼The People Will Save the Planet, Not the Courts. The European Court of Human Rights has condemned Switzerland for its climate policy. It’s a dangerous overreach. — François Valentin
+Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union+
(Mostly material from the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group)
Russia admits to holding Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Khyliuk two years after abducting him — 09.04.2024 — After two years of evident lies, the Russians appear to be claiming that Khyliuk, an UNIAN journalist, was a 'military serviceman'. They have yet to admit to be holding award-winning journalist Victoria Roshchyna
‘240 houses were razed to the ground, and 700 were damaged’ — resident of the village of Zahaltsi — 10.04.2024 — Oleksandr Voinalovych lives in the village of Zahaltsi, Kyiv Region. He is a former employee of the State Emergency Service. When a full-scale war began, and there were already many occupiers around the village, Oleksandr evacuated women and children by school bus.
Crimean Tatar imprisoned for refusal to ‘publicly repent’ protest over Russia’s war against Ukraine 11.04.2024
Dmytro Vovk: Is it possible to ban the Ukranian Orthodox Church? 12.04.2024
Russians kill or injure 57 Ukrainian children in March alone 12.04.2024
Russian traffic police used for enforced disappearances and FSB terror in occupied Crimea 12.04.2024
‘I saw a plane drop a bomb on my house’ 12.04.2024
Russia incriminates itself through ‘trial’ of Ukrainian abducted 7 years ago in occupied Donbas 15.04.2024
Russian invaders turn Kherson oblast culture centre into torture chamber for ‘unreliable’ Ukrainians 15.04.2024
Ukrainian children brainwashed in Russia’s ‘Youth Army’ into wanting to fight against Ukraine 17.04.2024
‘Words cannot express what we experienced,’ — a resident of the village of Zahaltsi 21.04.2024
Russia charges Crimean who refused to fight against Ukraine with ‘treason’ 22.04.2024
Russia, Jehovah’s Witnesses banned since 20 April 2017 22.04.2024
Hero of Ukraine among hundreds of medics whom Russia is illegally holding prisoner 24.04.2024
88-year-old Ukrainian fled occupied Donbas on foot rather than accept Russian citizenship 25.04.2024
The death penalty in Russia. How would it threaten Ukrainians? 25.04.2024
+In the offing+
https://www.choralconnection.org.au/upcoming-concerts
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Dr Michael Lawriwsky — “How Russia's Propaganda Narrative Shaped Western Perceptions of its War on Ukraine”
6.00 – 7.00 AEST, Wednesday 15 May 2024
Level 13, 356 Collins Street, Melbourne
For details and to register (for in-person or virtual attendance) please follow this link.
In 1990 Dr Michael Lawriwsky was visiting professor at the International Management Institute Kyiv, where he taught in the first (and last) MBA course in the Soviet Union.
+Pi Jaws &c.+ | + Laughter, the best Medicine+
Noticing Beauty
Annie Dillard
We are here to witness the creation and abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but, especially, we notice the beautiful faces and complex natures of each other. We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us. We witness our generation and our times. We watch the weather.
~ Plough
The Music of Rocks
Ludwig van Beethoven
How glad I am to be able to roam in wood and thicket, among the trees and flowers and rocks. No one can love the country as I do. My bad hearing does not trouble me here. In the country every tree seems to speak to me, saying, ‘Holy! Holy!’ In the woods there is enchantment which expresses all things! . . . Do not forests, trees, rocks re-echo that for which humankind longs?
~ Plough
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+Publication Details+
Just Peace Ukraine is published by the Rvrd Martin Arnold
Abbe.Martincurt@gmail.com
who welcomes comments & suggestions and notification of typos.
For more information about Martin, go to
https://gravatar.com/martinoarnold
*_* Хай живе вільна Україна *_* L’Ukraine a toujours aspiré à être libre - Voltaire *_* Няхай жыве вольная Украіна *_* Larga vida a Ucrania libre *_* Да здравствует свободная Украина *_* Long live free Ukraine *_* 自由乌克兰万岁 *_* Bandera rossonera la trionferà!
*_* تحيا أوكرانيا حرة *_*
The rationale for Just Peace Ukraine is being revised. A new improved version will be unveiled at our earliest convenience. We expect that the new rationale will have headings —
The Russo-Ukrainian War is illegal
The Russo-Ukrainian War is immoral
The Russo-Ukrainian War is inexpedient
If you’d like to send in your own thoughts for any or all of these headings — or other material — feel free. We’ve been thinking about the rationale for so long that we find it hard to criticize our own prose.
In brief —
RF forces must leave Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and any other occupied territories. It must assist prisoners and the deported, whether children or adults, to return home. The Kremlin must use its fossil-fuel and other loot to recompense for damages its forces have caused.
+Tl;dr+
Samvydav Review for Just Peace Ukraine
Scores of Substack and similar samvydav sites sifted by the strenuous staff at Just Peace Ukraine.
Some interesting or worthy items are marked with some combination of the banner with the strange device [|εξηλσιορ*ψ|] — ψ, the Greek letter ‘psi’, may denote matter especially relevant to the Russo-Ukrainian War and anti-imperialism.
(Mnemonic: ‘psi’ has the form of a trident, which is an ancient symbol for Ukrainian government. The symbol was used in the Greek settlements on the Black Sea (or Psi). Tim Snyder reminds us that Greeks and Jews have the longest recorded settlements in Ukraine, and capital psi Ψ looks like an infant menorah.)
Dispatches from wonderful authors such as —
¶Aaron Ross Powell
¶Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum@journa.host
¶Daniel W. Drezner
¶Jon Haidt and al.
¶’Liberal Patriot’ Sbstck writers
¶Matt Osborne
¶The Musical Platypus Bob Hart
¶‘Persuasion’ Sbstck Writers
¶Ruy Teixeira & the Liberal Patriot
¶Sarcastosaurus (Tom Cooper)
¶Tim Mak, Oksana Ostapchuk and al.
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¶Aaron Ross Powell
☼A Necessary Evil? The Violent Nature of Political Authority —
April 08, 2024
☼The False Economic Promise of Populism: A Conversation with Rachel Kleinfeld. Populists rely on big promises and false premises to sell their methods to citizens—the outcome is rarely a happy ending
☼Lost in Ideology: A Conversation with Jason Blakely
☼Yes, Virginia, There Is Structural Racism in America: A Conversation with Richard Rothstein. Race neutral housing policies end up entrenching racial inequalities when imposed on a fundamentally discriminatory system
☼The Nature of Ideology — A conversation with Jason Blakely
I think the simple thing that can be said initially is that I'm working out of a tradition that sees ideologies as cultural maps that are formed inside of history.
¶Adam Kinzinger
☼Sunset of Life Being Destroyed. The heroes of the past are being milked dry by the grifters of the present
☼A Bridge Collapses in Baltimore — And Trumpists respond with idiocy, bigotry, and partisanship
☼Two big issues breaking against Trump — Biden came through on the other guy’s promises
☼RFK Jr, Entitled Egotist. His spoiler campaign will likely help Trump. And he knows it
☼Speaker Johnson: Save Ukraine, or be a Shameful Name in History. The House GOP can save, or tank, Ukraine. History is watching
☼Slippery Don, Caught at Last. With Trump's historic trial, the system is working
☼Emergency Video: Donald Trump does not deter Iran. Just two min, but a reminder of how terrible Trump really was
☼Trump Trying to Guarantee Post-Election Nightmare. No matter how it turns out, he seeks violence and instability. All for himself.
☼A Weak and Sleepy Trump. The guy can't even stay awake for his own trial
☼Mobster or Putin clone? When it comes to Trump, the answer is: Both
☼A Few Trumpy Tidbits In which no one comes off looking good.
¶Adam Tooze
☼Can labour save Boeing from itself? The global infrastructure finance boom, the economic history of the holiday resort & the economics of a Strep vaccine
☼Drug shortages, Mongolia's climate cataclysm, South Sudan's pipeline crisis & McCarthy on the reification of thought.
☼Chips for America, Russia's nitrocellulose imports, listening to Yemen & America is thinking about building a railway ... on the moon!
☼Baltimore insurance claims & the logic of big ships, Indian growth arithmetic, Tajik poverty & Bavaria's space moment.
☼Chartbook 272 The case for a big vaccine push (despite the political economy). It's time for a new golden age in global health.
☼Sweden's inequality surge, the drama of China's demographic transition, all-American "worm grunting" & Gadamer's bitter retirement
☼Brazil's size, the pain of long COVID, IG Farben's empire & how Storm Shadow actually worked.
☼Making chips is REALLY hard, millennial housing inequality, victims of fortress Europe & the VW unionization drive
☼Chartbook 274 From Bauhaus to Buchenwald .. to mid-century cool.
☼Chartbook 275: After the Iran-Israel escalation, where does the global economy go next?
☼Soft, slow and scarred - the IMF's take on the world economy in April 2024.
☼Data-dependent central banking, China's nuclear power surge, project gnome & Ukraine's middle-aged army.
☼Why you shouldn't believe the CPI hype. NY's tax colonoscopies and Florida threatens Chinese with prison for buying property.
☼Chartbook 277 The world is still on fire! (Summers & Singh) - the disaster of development finance in 2023.
☼The boomer wealth cascade, America's local death spirals, Buchenwald's roll call & modes of injection.
☼The looming debt crush, the global gold rush, the "Bloody Ground" & little Egypt ... in Illinois.
☼Gen Z takes over. Underwater Afrofuturism and why California can't insure its fire houses.
☼Ukraine's power imports, cash hoarders, PE's $3.2 trillion embarrassment & the last class of a Harvard legend.
☼Chartbook 279: Columbia University's "crisis" - a political economy sketch map.
☼Wage growth in America, a Chinese take on financial crises, the Venetian empire and vapor trails over Wales.
☼Why the Pentagon buys Chinese-made ships, growth in the Philippines & the libidinal fantasy of campus.
¶Ada Wordsworth
☼Urgent appeal for Derhachi
☼Thank you
☼April update from KHARPP, plus an event in London
¶Addison Hodges Hart
☼Mysticism and music 9: Stabat Mater in nine versions
☼A reflection in Paschaltide. Hypothesis and paradosis and you
☼A reflection in Paschaltide: Addendum. Two videos
☼Mencius and coming to know Heaven. Confucian sage, mystic, and prophet of ancient China
☼The last temptation. On spiritual struggle and the intellectual life
☼Prayer: what it is ... and its priority
¶Alexander Vindman & al.
☼Peace Thru Strength. The Last Thing Washington Should do is Push for Ukrainian restraint
☼My Interview on MSNBC's "Velshi". Over the weekend I joined Ali Velshi to discuss how Ukraine can still win the war
☼Marjorie, What Planet Are You On? MTG Views Putin's Invasion as a Holy War
☼Know Your Enemy: the Shahed-136. The Drone at the Center of Tehran's Attacks and the Iranian-Russian Axis
☼Emergency Video on Trump's National Security Cowardice. My experience in Trump's White House when Russia attacked Ukraine
☼Bring Kids Home. We must do all we can to bring Ukraine's kidnapped children home
☼The Package Passes. Slava Ukraini!
¶Alex Massie
☼A New Britain Needs Old Symbols. Far from being "in crisis", the Royal Family is more relevant than ever
☼The Most Hate-Filled Country in the World. Scotland's hate crime act is a calamity because the government and the police have made it so.
☼The Vindication of Britain's Feminists. The Cass Review into the treatment of gender-questioning children is devastating. The truth was always there to be seen: many chose not to see it.
☼The End of a Very Small Song. The SNP have dumped their Green coalition partners. But this will not solve Humza Yousaf's problems.
¶Andrew Milburn
☼Something rotten in the Israeli Defense Force? The recent strike on an aid convoy comes in the wake of a damning probe into the deaths of three hostages at the hands of the IDF.
¶Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum@journa.host
[|εξηλσιορ*ψ|]
You can buy a hard copy or download for fre
☼From Hal Brands at SAIS, Johns Hopkins: a wide-ranging collection of essays on the war in Ukraine. I wrote one, as did Mike McFaul, Michael Kofman, Dan Drezner, Steve Kotkin and many others. You can buy a hard copy or download for free:
https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/5389
☼Greetings from rural Poland Beginning a substack, years after everybody else
☼Not so Delphic. Greece chose liberalism, and began to succeed (at least for now)
☼Israel and Ukraine: why the same kind of attack, using the same weapons, evokes different responses
¶Arun
☼The Israel-Hamas war at day 205
¶Cathy Young
☼When Hatred of the Left Becomes Love for Putin. There are deep ideological reasons behind conservative affinity for Russia.
¶Clare Ashcraft
☼On The Meaning of Life. How to find it and finally stop asking the wrong questions
¶Claire Ainsley
☼Britain Faces Fallout from War in the Holy Land. How the ongoing conflict in Gaza affects domestic politics in the UK—and inside the center-left Labour Party.
¶Claire Berlinski, Cosmopolitan Globalist
☼The New Caesars, Part I. An introduction to the political trend that defines our age.
☼We're back! ... Just in time to discuss the passage of the Ukraine aid bill, the protests in Georgia, and the horror show in Sudan. Join us for 15 minutes as we take you around the world in the Elephant Cage.
¶Daniel W. Drezner
☼Betting or Hedging On Trump? Those who know Trump best are keeping their distance. Others are making... different choices.
☼Notes on the Balkans. Some observations after my week in Serbia.
☼The Fastest Edited Volume in History. And my thoughts on economic sanctions and the Russo-Ukrainian War
☼Vladimir Putin's Massive Confirmation Bias — What Russia's response to a deadly terror attack in Moscow says about Putin's regime.
☼Drezner's Deep Thoughts On AI — Not deep-deep. Maybe quasi-deep?
☼Women's Basketball is Having A Moment. There will be more moments.
☼The Long and the Short of Donald Trump's Dumb Foreign Policy. Let's talk about Trump's peace in our time for Ukraine!
☼My Countercyclical Profession. Some personal news...
☼Anatomy of a Media Hit. I went on television yesterday to talk about Iran and Israel. This is my story.
☼Is Israel Moving Down the Learning Curve? Is the United States? Will the latest response to Iran's missile attack be the end of it?
☼What Are the Sources of Power in the Digital Age? I reviewed some books!
☼The Carnage Is the Point — On the matter of student protests, universities, and a myriad assortment of outside agitators.
¶Dan Meyer
☼Great Teachers Are Interested More Than They're Interesting. One way to not fix the alienation of online learning.
☼It Isn't Enough to Love [children] or Math
¶Dan Perry
☼Pivotal moment on Iran – but also on Gaza. Calls are mounting for a rethink of the war on Hamas. Could the attack from Iran provide an opportunity?
¶David Bentley Hart
☼Roland on the Acceleration of Experience— Roland in the Morning, Part 3
☼Dao & Eclipse. Desultory Reflections
☼Roland on God, Necessity, and Freedom. Roland in the Morning, Final Part
¶David Josef Volodzko and the ‘Radicalist’
☼Why Was Japan Never Colonized? Isolation, cohesion and lack of interest explained in 6 minutes
☼The Future of Woke. A letter exchange with Richard Hanania
☼I Was Fired for 'Defending Hitler'. How the Seattle Times fired me for criticizing Lenin
☼The Angry Apes of Harmony. On the science and philosophy of conformity
¶Diane Francis
☼Russia Unravels — March 25, 2024
☼Haiti or Hades? March 28, 2024
☼Hitler's Avatar — April 1, 2024
☼China Waits — April 8, 2024
¶Éamann Mac Donnchada
☼Truth, Memory, and Justice in Argentina. Plus Walter Benjamin, Portbou, and Gaza
☼Parsing Peronismo. Why writing about politics in Argentina is much harder than writing about politics in Spain,
☼What exactly is Junts? The Catalan Election (Six)
☼How Long Will Milei's Honeymoon Last? And Why Aren't There Riots In The Streets?
¶Eliot Wilson
☼The c-word: cancer looms large in our lives. Half of us will get one cancer of some kind at some point in our lives; there are 200+ kinds on offer; but half of sufferers will survive for ten years or more
☼The China syndrome: a reader. Our relationship with the People's Republic of China is under the microscope, so here is a compendium of what I've written on the subject
☼Spring forward! Sunday round-up 31 March 2024 (BST edition). Summertime is here, in one sense, and with it, an hour earlier, some observations and recommendations from the past week
☼Sunday round-up 7 April 2024. As is becoming traditional, some observations and recommendations from the past week, on this Feast of the Blessed Notker the Stammerer
☼The Brexit referendum was the right thing to do Whether you are the most Spartan of Brexiteers or a wistful federalist, so much changed between 1975 and 2016 that the electorate was entitled to be consulted
☼Labour's possible civil service picks. A number of senior officials are coming to the end of their tenure or could reasonably be moved if a new Labour government wanted fresh faces
☼Andrew Mitchell, deputy foreign secretary. A mini-reshuffle included Andrew Mitchell being named "deputy foreign secretary", to some Westminster bubble amusement: but are we too cynical?
☼Putting the National Guard on the New York Subway. Last month the governor of New York deployed the National Guard to the Subway, but this isn't how to provide "military aid to the civil authorities", as we learned in Northern Ireland
☼Sunday round-up 21 April 2024. It is the anniversary of the foundation of Rome, according to traditional Roman chronology, and the feast of St Anselm of Canterbury
☼The class of 2024: Labour's new (and old) blood part 1 — If Labour wins a substantial majority at the forthcoming general election, here are some potential new MPs to watch
☼Predictions and desired outcomes are not the same thing at election time. Commentary has room for evidence-based conclusions and hypotheses based on instinct or aspiration, but we need always to be clear which we are dealing with
☼The rise of the unaccountable experts: why do we allow politicians to give away power? Trust in politicians is at a record low so we look for other people and other bodies to take responsibility and remove our anxieties
☼Law and order and policing in London: a reader. Recent policing of public order in the capital prompted me to look back at what I've written on the subject of law and order in general
¶Erin Cook
☼🇹🇭 Who is really the boss in Thailand? 🇻🇳 Did a rival scalp Vo Van Thuong?
☼🇮🇩 Failed prez candidates face Constitutional Court 🇵🇭 What's this about Duterte and Beijing?
☼🇲🇾 🇲🇾 From socks to fire bombs in KK Mart case 🇸🇬 Singapore launches bridge disaster investigations
☼🇰🇭 Is Cambodia set to become the hub of scam compounds? (Again) 🇹🇭🏳️🌈 Senate clears a hurdle in marriage equality
☼The Week Ahead: Marcos heads to DC (again) and things are heating up (literally). Elsewhere, the KK Mart scandal may turn seditious, a Naypyitaw drone strike and the net is closing in on Apollo Quiboloy
☼🇲🇲 Myawaddy throws off the junta, Thai diplomacy, airspace, come to the fore. Myanmar braces for dystopian draft law to take effect
☼The Week Ahead: Happy New Year across the Mekong as Thailand eyes the Myanmar border. Elsewhere, a fresh round of Duterte vs. Marcos is underway while Vietnam braces
☼🇸🇬 Succession season in Singapore: After 20 years, Lee Hsien Loong is standing down
☼Philippines and US launch joint exercises, Indonesia readies for election ruling. Elsewhere, Thai PM Srettha to head to the border, Malaysia hits another round of Najib mess and Jakarta readies for a post-Idul Fitri influx
☼Thailand braces as Myawaddy conflict spills over. No love lost for Rohingy in India's citizenship plan
☼🇮🇩 It's official! (Again) Prabowo, Gibran and 58% of Indonesian voters prevail in court challenge. Is it better to be in The Plastics, hating life, than to not be in at all?
☼🇲🇲 Junta holds the line in Myawaddy — NUG is mad at China while the junta is mad at the US
¶Francis Fukuyama
[|εξηλσιορ*ψ|]
☼What’s the Real Threat to Campus Free Speech? It isn’t "woke" faculty or students—it’s the administrative state's expansion of Title IX
¶Fr Thomas Plant & al.
[|εξηλσιορ*ψ|]
☼Christianus Ludens. Merrygrave musings on the Friday we call Good
☼The pastoral dimensions of sin — For your prayers this Easter Eve
☼The Serpent King. Living in a world of dragons
☼Thoughts from Morning Prayer: Numbers 14:21-24. The only way through the wilderness is to follow Jesus
¶Jacob Mchangama
[|εξηλσιορ*ψ|]
☼How to Fight Misinformation Without Censorship. Taiwan’s approach puts other countries to shame.
¶Jean M. Twenge
☼Is Economic Deprivation the Real Cause of The Adolescent Mental Health Crisis? Jean Twenge responds to the Nature review of The Anxious Generation
☼Suicide Rates Are Now Higher Among Young Adults Than the Middle-Aged. It’s time to update common beliefs about age and suicide
¶Jeff Jackson
☼The Speaker (finally) makes his move And risks his job
☼Going against your political interests And sparking a leadership crisis
¶Jessica Morley
☼Can AI save the NHS? It's going to be a lot harder than our politicians seems to realise
¶Joe Cirincione
[|εξηλσιορ*ψ|]
☼No, Ukraine Is Not Behind the Attack in Moscow. But Putin's plan to blame Ukraine is aided by useful idiots in America who spread his propaganda
☼Israel Has Lost Washington. Washington centrists have seen enough. Calls grow for suspending military aid.
¶Jon Haidt and al.
☼It’s Time To Free The Anxious Generation. The book comes out today. By the end of 2025, we will roll back the phone-based childhood.
☼How to Delay the Age at Which [childer] Get Smartphones — A smartphone-free childhood is easier than you think. Melanie Hempe
☼Yes, Social Media Really Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness. Two major problems with a review in Nature
☼The Girls Are Not Alright: Responses to Three Claims that the Youth Mental Health Crisis Is Exagerated. Why changes in stigma and self-reporting procedures cannot explain the international decline of adolescent girls’ mental health.
☼Social Media, Not the Economy, is Harming Teen Mental Health. Here’s the evidence.
☼A Time We Never Knew. "Phones? No. We had each other." Freya India
¶Jonn Elledge
☼Main character syndrome. This week: it’s not all about you, Prime Minister. Also, an official and objective ranking of London underground/overground line names; and my new favourite animal.
☼295 Days Gone. This is how it feels to go on without you.
☼Questions of appetite. This week: some thoughts on the British cuisine debate, some further notes on further Channel Islands, and what the hell’s a primate city?
☼An incomplete list of things which failed British Prime Minister Liz Truss blames, hates or has threatened to abolish. Also this week: on the sociopathy of nations; on my grandfather, Wally; and an interactive map of British place names.
☼Some other north/south divides — At least some of which are the wrong way up.
¶Kateryna Babkina
☼Future continuous. The post-war scars of the city and its people
☼Katya. Sarajevo is full of Katya’s, brave survivors, beautiful fighters, who make jokes and fun out of what had happened to them. But there’s a lot underneath.
☼Coming home. This is the third story from Sarajevo, Bosnia. Story of war, trauma and memory, but also great love and hope. Me, I'm often asked now when I and my daughter are going home. I have no idea.
☼If you have an opinion on Ukraine — There are numerous approaches to validate and verify opinions. The most universal one is knowledge, things you can evidence-prove and check. Sometimes it works.
¶Katja Hoyer
☼Interview: Doing German history in Britain
☼The Kaiser Who Came to Tea
☼The Red Terror that Continues to Haunt Germany
☼The German capital that never was. Frankfurt may be rich but its history is richer
☼The Wurst Article. Of Germans and their sausages
☼We need to talk. What happened when the BBC invited the far-right and what Germany can learn from this
☼Made in East Germany with Sabine Rennefanz. What's it like to be from somewhere that doesn't exist anymore? [podcast]
☼Berlin is still divided
¶Ken Opalo
☼Gulf Cash & Influence in African States. There is enormous potential for Africa-Gulf relations to propel economic prosperity on both sides of the Red Sea; but only if both sets of leaders can overcome their lack of strategic ambition.
☼On the ongoing cocoa boom and what it tells us about the current state (and future) of African agriculture. Long relegated to the back burner, African agriculture — a sector that is critical for poverty reduction — is experiencing steady productivity decline and loss of labor. This must be reversed.
¶Kjetil Kringlebotten
☼Blessing God: The Liturgy as ‘Middle Voiced’ — On the Role of Humans in Worship
¶Landry Ayres
☼Why Are the Finns "Happy"? What Nordic liberalism can teach other countries about fostering a worry-free people
¶Latika M Bourke
☼Western response to Chinese hacking weak and bureaucratic. Chinese hackers attacked critics of Beijing and democratic institutions.
☼What I'm reading. March 29: Five reads that piqued my interest this week
☼Why these winemakers aren’t banking on China despite the wine ban ending. What it's like to be on the receiving end of China's economic coercion, according to these Australian winemakers.
☼What I'm Reading. April 12: Five reads that piqued my interest this week
☼We'll need 'deep pockets' for Ukraine, British minister warns. The UK's new Europe minister said she always felt Russia's war would continue longer than first anticipated.
☼Prepare now for Trump and the Trumpers taking it to the streets, retired General warns. Retired Lieutenant-General Ben Hodes said the Biden Adminstration needed to be ready to deal with violence, if Trump loses.
☼What I'm Reading. April 19: Five reads that piqued my interest this week
☼'Must laugh at us': Putin succesfully scared the West into self-deterrence with empty nuke threats. The Ben Hodges interview: Part II
☼Germany and UK charge nationals with spying for China. Two British men, including a parliamentary aide, will face court in London.
☼I asked Britain's Two Christophers how they will plead to spying charges. Christopher Berry and Christopher Cash faced their first court hearing.
☼How Rwandans Cope With the Horror of 1994. “The genocide is not over,” a trauma counselor told me. “The survivors are still living with those who committed the crimes.”
¶Lawrence & Sam Freedman
☼Putin the Fanatic
☼Why Iran’s attack on Israel failed
☼What will happen to politics after a Tory defeat? Four scenarios for the post-election world
☼Escalation, Red Lines, Risk and the Russo-Ukraine War
¶’Liberal Patriot’ Sbstck writers
☼Isolate the Isolationists — How Iran’s foolish and foiled attack on Israel proves why American engagement remains vital to regional security.
☼Big in Japan. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida makes the case for American internationalism during last week's state visit to Washington.
☼Why Democrats Will Become Energy Realists. There is no alternative.
¶maksym.eristavi
☼Russian Colonialism, Exposed: Finland 1939-1940
☼russian colonialism 101: it is not just putin, it is the russians. russian rulers come and go, russian colonialism stays the same.
¶Mary Harrington
☼The Women Of The E-Right — An extremely online spotter's guide
¶Matt Osborne
☼Europe And The Challenge In Ukraine. Macron is using his constitutional powers as designed
Terms to remember: domaine réservé, grande muette