"To point out that right-wing culture warriors conflate academic freedom and free speech is, in a sense, to give them too much credit. In practice they subscribe to ‘free speech’ and ‘academic freedom’ only when, and to whichever ideological ends, it suits them."

Essay on current attacks on UK Higher Education, by Amia Srinivasan writing in current London Review of Books - this one is #OpenAccess
#LRB
#CultureWars
#FreeSpeech
#AcademicFreedom
#Universities

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n13/amia-srinivasan/cancelled

"What Wood's retelling reminds us is that a non-consequentialist focus on individuals as ends in themselves – distinct centres of self-responsible significance – makes it ethically imperative to arrange public transport systems in ways that ensure trolley problems do not arise."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n11/stephen-mulhall/non-identity-crisis

#TrolleyProblems #ethics
#DerekParfit
#LondonReviewOfBooks #LRB

/fin

"What Wood's retelling reminds us is that a non-consequentialist focus on individuals as ends in themselves distinct centres of self-responsible significance makes it ethically imperative to arrange public transport systems in ways that ensure trolley problems do not arise."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n11/stephen-mulhall/non-identity-crisis

#TrolleyProblems #ethics
#DerekParfit
#LondonReviewOfBooks #LRB

/fin

"What Wood’s retelling reminds us is that a non-consequentialist focus on individuals as ends in themselves – distinct centres of self-responsible significance – makes it ethically imperative to arrange public transport systems in ways that ensure trolley problems do not arise."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n11/stephen-mulhall/non-identity-crisis

#TrolleyProblems #ethics
#DerekParfit
#LondonReviewOfBooks #LRB

/fin

Ducking fights on difficult issues may work in the short term, if your aim is to win the support of this or that portion of the electorate. In the long run, it is a proven disaster.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/march/not-so-clever-politics

#ukpolitics #illegalmigration #labourpartyuk #populism #LRB

There’s so much food for thought in William Davies’s “The Reaction Economy” in the current London Review of Books #lrb: behaviourism, trolling, cybernetic feedback, and an emerging new model of the individual.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n05/william-davies/the-reaction-economy

"If he had been born with a sunnier temperament, #Hayek might have come out as a libertarian socialist, a bohemian existentialist, an anarchist hippy, or a small-is-beautiful beatnik, without abandoning his economic principles. He might even have glimpsed the possibility that liberal values will never be safe without socialism."
Reading Jonathan Rée: Hayek in England #LRB https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n03/jonathan-ree/opium-of-the-elite

"In #Brazil as elsewhere in the Western hemisphere, conquest and genocide in pursuit of El Dorado continue. In 1993, when Jair #Bolsonaro was a recently elected member of the Chamber of Deputies, he tried to reverse legislation that recognised #Yanomami territory .. "

#Goldmining & #Genocide

#Amazonia #extractivism #IndigenousPeoples

#LRB

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/february/goldmining-and-genocide

Little River Band - The Night Owls https://youtu.be/LmIBmqvmYx4
#RadioWolf

#Retro #Rock #Australia #LRB

The Night Owls - Little River Band https://youtu.be/LmIBmqvmYx4
#RadioWolf

#Retro #Rock #Australia #LRB

This is an astonishing review by Andrew O'Hagan of Prince Harry's book 'Spare'.
"There has never been a book like this, with its parcelling out of epic, one-sided truths. Most royal biographies, even the lively ones ... were made airless by vapid writing, spurious genuflections before royal protocol, cringing vanity masquerading as public service."
#LRB
#LondonReviewofBooks
#PrinceHarry
#Journalism
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n03/andrew-o-hagan/off-his-royal-tits

#Enseignement #anglais #banlieue #France https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n22/madeleine-schwartz/diary #LRB

"The primary product sold by all #ManagementConsultants (..) is the theology of #capital. This holds that #workers are expendable. (..) #Managers are necessary to the functioning of corporations – or universities, or non-profit organisations – and the more of them the better."

#LalehKhalili reviews #WaltBogdanich & #MichaelForsythe's #WhenMcKinseyComesToTown: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm

#McKinsey #books #ManagementCulture

#LRB

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n24/laleh-khalili/in-clover

#LRB c'est pas une vraie quote de Pratchett, mais c'est clairement un truc qu'il aurait pu dire donc je culpabilise pas de diffuser cette fake news

@BylinesScotland talking about Scottish ferries... https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/october/scotland-s-ferry-fiasco-continued #scotland #LRB

Little River Band interview on Ten's Nightmoves.
https://youtu.be/HevgSaU3Iow

#LRB #80s #Retro #Interview

From a review of Hernan Diaz’s _Trust_ in the #LRB, by Amam Mars-Jones, 20 October 2022.

"The United States has become more vulnerable to authoritarian challenges thanks to the deterioration of its democracy over the last two decades. The reasons for this decline are many but include the absence of limits on campaign finance and the overwhelming influence of corporate money, the right-wing assault on black enfranchisement and the descent of some quarters of red America into conspiratorial culture-war fanaticism." Adam Shatz in #LRB on #USpolitics https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n23/adam-shatz/you-think-our-country-s-so-innocent

Link to Adam Shatz’s interview with Raja Shahadeh on his new book, on fathers, sons, and the moving & troubled history of #Palestine. On the #LRB podcast. Do listen!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ie93tT0WdrGn070q3Og98?si=c82EHphKSciPxApKTg5fdQ

"One of McManus’s interviewees, discussing the ennui felt by young people, says: ‘It is very difficult to just live here and do nothing.’ ...
McManus meets a young man called Khalid who, unusually, spends much of his time motorbiking around Europe; his peers consider him odd, if not deviant. McManus asks him how he would compare his life in Qatar with his experiences elsewhere. ‘I have met lots of people happier than us in Qatar,’ he replies."

#qatar #lrb

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n22/david-goldblatt/how-to-get-on-tv