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Commentary is John Podhoretz’s rag. It was Norm Podhoretz’s rag before that.
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Troy Queef posted:the Balkan conflicts were a very weird time for the left, where because Slobodan was "socialist" and the Croatian forces especially had a hard-on for neo-Nazi movements, they just went and ignored Srebenica and the real motivation for Milosevic, which wasn't socialism/re-building Titoist Yugoslavia but a vision of Greater Serbia also the u.s. helping bomb in 1994 and helping broker the dayton accords, and then subsequently bombing serbia in 1999 on behalf of kosovo, which only made things worse
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whomupclicklike posted:https://twitter.com/adamserwer/status/1007556840014655488?s=21 I heard Commentary and Dissent merged, I thought they were Dysentery now.
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Lol. I'm not sure if I've ever read a physical copy of Dissent tbh. They publish Gabriel Winant and Sarah Jaffe though, both of whom I think are quite good.
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GalacticAcid posted:Science for the People is renewing publication this summer. Thanks for this. Hopefully it turns out to be cool. I've wanted to be a scientist for the people my whole life. Now I'm just a scientist in service of capital because I gotta get paid.
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I went to an event with some of the ppl involved last fall, they seemed cool
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It's Friday and I have the day off babey, time to read the Economist with some fireball and do fuckall else
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Dredging this thread up again I can't believe I haven't heard the term, which I'm sure was coined long before the article in the most recent Baffler, "Bloombourgeois" which is put to excellent use describing the (theoretically existent) denizens of hideous supertall buildings infecting midtown these days. This issue also had a pisstape reference, although the Decorthography won out with the phrase "pee tape" I'm spending 13 hours in airports and on planes today so I'm catching up on my backlog
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Gunshow Poophole posted:hideous supertall buildings Martin Filler's Conspicuous Construction on supertall high rises in Manhattan is an absolute must-read. quote:The stratospheric amounts now at stake in newly built Manhattan buildings perhaps can be best understood by comparison with today’s contemporary art market, where multimillion-dollar paintings and sculptures have become favored instruments in the global transfer of vast and largely unregulated sums. The more expensive the object, the more money can be shifted internationally in one transaction, with the artworks themselves—mere markers to some degree—making a useful stopover at the Geneva Freeport, the tax-free air entrepôt in Switzerland used by dealers and collectors to reduce or eliminate import duties and value-added taxes. However, much as the new super-tall New York condos may serve that same general purpose, these are no works of art. If, as Goethe posited, architecture is frozen music, then these buildings are vertical money. *** quote:[re: 432 Park Ave] Many observers report being bemused, not to say unnerved, by the Viñoly building’s strange ubiquitousness. Visible throughout all five boroughs and as far away as Long Island and New Jersey, it startles both visitors and natives with its thin looming omnipresence and seems to follow you around like a bad conscience. One doesn’t hear much about 432 Park’s design for the good reason that artistic niceties are almost beside the point in the mathematical conjuring that brought it and its peers into being. You could even say this structure resembles a three-dimensional balance sheet more than a fully articulated architectural façade *** quote:Today’s race to erect ever-higher, ever-more-luxurious Manhattan condominiums recalls the early-twentieth-century competition to win New York City bragging rights for the world’s tallest building, as one record-breaking tower after another rose in dizzying succession. Yet not one of New York’s postmillennial claimants to that lineage possesses an iota of the aesthetic élan that distinguished those early skyscrapers, internationally renowned as America’s signal contribution to modern architectural form. Here one can point, for example, to the Woolworth, Chrysler, and Empire State buildings.
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Yeah that's one of my faves and I link it often to people who are visiting the city for the first time. You can see 432 Park from every avenue in my neighborhood.
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Subscription to The Jacobin are on sale today: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=BASTILLEDAY
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2 for 1 deal -- a year's subscription to both the London Review of Books (biweekly) and the Paris Review (quarterly) for $80.
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I haven't read Texas Monthly regularly for a long time, since iirc they underwent some editorial changes that weakened the publication. But they have this little piece up on their site and it's the first I have seen this issue reported anywhere --- U.S. Army Mirrored Amazon’s HQ2 Search Tactics in Choosing New Futures Command Location quote:To select the headquarters for its new Futures Command, the U.S. Army took a page from Amazon, pitting American cities against each other in a bidding war similar to Jeff Bezos’s protracted search for the online retailer’s so-called HQ2. Starting with 150 potential locations, the Army used metrics like research funding and patents filed to narrow the list down to 30. Factoring in quality-of-life concerns further winnowed the contestants to 15, a list with significant overlap to Amazon’s 20-city shortlist. The Army then dispatched a ground team to evaluate the final five cities: Boston, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Austin, and Raleigh, North Carolina.
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bird teeth recommended this in discord today and I found it reasonably compelling from an analysis, if not a "solutions" or "suggestions" perspective Essay about the lack of credibility of the ENTIRE foreign policy establishment a primary factor behind why nobody with the power to do so can actually effectively critique or oppose the idiot orange babyman's blundering executive function. author self-identifies as one of them, and leans into "drumpf" a lil bit harder than I prefer. but it's a really good point that needs to be hammered home. We weren't doing "great" or even "good" for like... 20 goddamn years? So, a theoretical rebuttal to the recent events is "how is this any different?".
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I have two n+1 essays that go well with that topic. First -- Why Are We In the Middle East?, Richard Beck's review of Andrew Bacevich's book America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History. Beck writes: quote:What the Wisconsin School identified was not just the power of economic interests to drive American foreign policy but an essentially American worldview based on these interests, in which American primacy became a good in its own right. Williams’s descendants include the historians Marilyn B. Young and Gabriel Kolko, the late social and political scientist (and former CIA consultant) Chalmers Johnson, Bacevich, and good old Noam Chomsky. As a young conservative cold warrior studying Williams’s theories at Princeton, Bacevich initially considered Williams his “personal nemesis.” But by the publication of his book American Empire (2002), he came to share the essential contours of Williams’s theory of the Open Door. (Bacevich contributed an admiring afterword to a reissue of The Tragedy of American Diplomacy in 2009.) Also, Perry Anderson's "Consilium" later became one half of the book American Foreign Policy and its Thinkers which I highly, highly recommend if the guiding ideology of the foreign policy establishment and its institutional vessels are of any interest to you. Second-- Bernie's World: What does a left foreign policy look like? This is less a study of the existing establishment, and more of a rumination on how an ideological and institutional alternative could take shape. quote:Where is this Sanders now? The failure of the antiwar Sanders to emerge has been roundly criticized in the usual precincts — the late Alexander Cockburn having prepared the way in column after column (“that brass-lunged fraud from Vermont, Bernard Sanders, ‘socialist progressive,’ who has endorsed Clinton’s bombs”). But perhaps what’s missing isn’t the anti-imperialist Sanders. It’s the antiwar movement he was once part of, and which no longer exists.
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Putting that Consilium book on my chronically-neglected list. It's always been puzzling to me (read: I would prefer its goals to be fundamentally different at the jump but let's leave that aside for now) and I'm not a scholar of the subject by any means, that there is no subtlety in the exercise of America military influence. particularly now in an age of unprecedented information access and distribution. The capital-M Might we've deployed over the period of hegemony we've enjoyed could have been put to such unfathomably better use that I kinda get woozy thinking about it and fall back into whatever bottle I've crawled out of since I last claimed this would be the week I stop drinking.
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Gunshow Poophole posted:Putting that Consilium book on my chronically-neglected list. It circulates from NYPL if you're interested. And here is the LRB review that led me to read it, iirc.
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bumping this good filth
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really good LRB essay on the role of the university in postcolonial African states, and the intellectual debates over the role of academia in building independent national power, and how the influence of the World Bank altered the academic landscape. Also a really interesting description of the various currents published in the Kampala-based Transition magazine. Periodicals writing about periodicals 
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Political cartoon powerhouse The Nib is launching a print quarterly https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thenib/the-nib-magazine/
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im gonna start doing topic posts itt, where i post a topic and then essays on the subject from a few different journals that either focus deeply on an overlooked aspect or provide needed context i'll start with The Crisis in venezuela the prevailing narrative is that falling oil prices have hit government coffers hard. the lack of funds and government mismanagement have led to long grocery lines for dietary essentials, and ultimately in riots against the governments. these food riots have occurred among the historical working class base of the Chavismo movement, and they are finding common cause among supposedly pro-democracy middle class liberals as the government enacts 'authoritarian' policies to quell unrest the most intelligent and skillful exponent of this US State Department-friendly narrative is the right wing liberal Enrique Krauze, a Mexican intellectual and frequent contributor to a number of English and Spanish language literary & political journals. here is in the 8 March 2018 edition of The New York Review of Books, with "Hell of a Fiesta." The writing is good, and his arguments are bad meanwhile, Greg Grandin builds a broader analysis of the crisis around a review of Hugo Chavez's autobiography, with a keen eye for the fluctuations in oil geopolitics through the decades, and a clear admiration for the antipoverty and nation-building programs of the Bolivarian Revolution. He presents the current political status as a contest for the support of venezuela's working class, angry at the food lines but distrustful of the elite-dominated opposition. Down from the Mountain, from the 29 June 2017 edition of the London Review of Books and finally Ana Felicien, Christina Schiavoni and Liccia Romero are in the June 2018 Monthly Review on The Politics of Food in Venezuela. This is a richly researched study of the actual institutions and interests at play in the distribution of food in the country. Import-dependence developed in the oil boom years, and massive business interests arose to manage that importation. With the rise of Chavez, the state worked with these businesses to distribute necessities to the poor, thus ultimately subsidizing private profit as a necessary sacrifice for feeding the hungry. These private interests are hostile to the re-distributive state, and it's implied that the shortages have been calculated to attack the demographic heart of the Bolivarian revolution (poor & working class women) while products demanded by the middle class and elite remain readily available
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i should add, please do your own topic roundups like this or if you want you can post topic suggestions and if i'm capable i'll do a post
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I want to contribute to this thread by plugging A Radical Defense of the Right to Strike, which I liked reading https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/07/right-to-strike-freedom-civil-liberties-oppression
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Jose posted:https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/1006132860934336512 getfiscals still got it
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I have just been reminded that The Volunteer exists. Not sure if it's good or not but it was founded by American veterans of the Spanish Civil War (the Abraham Lincoln Brigade) and is still administered by the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives.
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Topic post: Puerto Rico Austerity Natural Disaster by Jean René Santiago Cruz, N+1, September 2017. How Hedge Funds are Pillaging Puerto Rico, by David Dayen, The American Prospect, December 2015. Why Are We Colonizing Puerto Rico? by David Dayen, the New Republic, April 2016. I think these do a good job of situating the current crisis within a broader context rather than just news cycle snippets. Dayen has gone on to write some more recent work on the subject for The Intercept, some of which I've read and some I haven't.
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Aug 24, 2018 16:49
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https://twitter.com/LukewSavage/status/1035913390735089664
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this is happening at the same time as that lovely socialist call magazine. jacobin trying to branch out and create a fake consensus by buying or founding a bunch of periodicals
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You’re forgetting Bhaskar’s trot origins He has no choice but to plow the profits from his newspaper into MORE newspapers
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spend less on newspapers no
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The Labour right has the Fabian review which I used to read, might be interesting as an answer to that if it stays focused on actual policy proposals and such.
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R. Guyovich posted:this is happening at the same time as that lovely socialist call magazine. jacobin trying to branch out and create a fake consensus by buying or founding a bunch of periodicals So what’s people’s thing against jacobin/etc in here? Just lukewarm takes generally?
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Sep 1, 2018 21:06
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the official periodical of "socialism, like in sweden"
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Jacobin denies the science of Lysenkoism
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I got my new issue of the Baffler this week and it owns, but they're definitely doing a thing that I'm about 70/30 in favor of where none of this issue's articles are online yet. I'd be linking two pieces, Adolph Reed with an insanely layered take on the pitfalls of black empowerment and equality through a representative lens, and Nathaniel Friedman's excellent definitive guide to the Succ Zone
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I'm also enjoying the new Baffler although this issue's cover is definitely stranger to be reading in public than previous issues
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Post the cover
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