Kurt Jacobsen and Sayeed Hasan Khan

‘Politics’ usually refers to flashy yet carefully staged electoral contests between candidates who ordinary citizens had no hand in choosing and whose policies are filtered through the status quo biases of suave media commentators. But politics encompasses the use and abuse of power in all spheres of life, not just the voting booth or parliamentary […]

The US authorities, aghast at Britain’s opt-out from a military strike, are busy hyping flimsy evidence about Bashar al-Assad’s alleged role in chemical weapons attacks. Are they lying? Never underestimate the exceptional ability of elites to deceive themselves in the routine task of deceiving the pubic for the higher purpose of pursuing ‘the national interest’. […]

Some readers may be acquainted with late historian Howard Zinn, best known for his A People’s History of the United States, who, it recently was revealed, was targeted for censorship in 2010, the same year he died. Mitch Daniels, the then Indiana governor and now President of Purdue University, frantically dispatched emails to his education […]

One of us has spent a great deal of time at elite universities and observed closely how foreign policy experts there are ‘trained’, which is exactly the right verb. Like Napoleon Bonaparte’s troops supposedly carried Field Marshal batons in their dusty packs as an incentive, these eager folks seem to lug Henry Kissinger’s nameplate in […]

So it is clear at last. The real reason, apparent after Edward Snowden’s and Bradley Manning’s revelations, for the popularity of all those dumb zombie films is that every value that Westerners grew up cherishing since the Second World War is now dead or dying, reduced to ravenous corpses shambling along, controlled by authorities as […]