Arjun Appadurai in The Guardian issues a diagnosis of the current government's project of dismantling the institutions and infrastructures of liberal democracy. He doesn't have, however, much on the way of prescription to at some point revert the process.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
R.I.P Fulbright Program. I was a Fulbright Scholar in 2022 and it was the experience of a lifetime. I hope this will just be a hiatus, the Dark Ages, and by the end of the decade it will be back up.
I took this video yesterday at the Miami protest. Please watch it if you want to remain hopeful about our collective future!! ❤️
The MAGA mayor of Miami Beach is evicting a cinema because it showed the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. Now local officials too feel empowered to censor and repress oppositional views. This is the political culture of the day. Fascism trickles down. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
I was a 2022 Fulbright scholar. I can't even imagine being left stranded with no funding half way through the program!
The non-profit agency that administers the Fulbright as well as our alumni association need to take this government to court!
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Fantastic talk by Yanis Varoufakis a couple of days ago with a detailed proposal for European governance and policy road map. He declares the European dream dead and calls for all of Europe to ditch NATO. He also has social and economic proposals worth a listen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXJK...
Not even Bezos' censorship dictums and pro-Right instructions can hide the truth. See the online front page of the Washington Post this morning. Judging from the news, one would think that the U.S. government has been seized by rogue saboteurs....
Must-attend. Has a zoom option. Organized by my friend and former colleague David Pedersen at UC-San Diego. @jskur.bsky.social
USAID knickknacks quickly get a second life in Johannesburg, South Africa, at a Chinese flea market (pics by my close friend and Wits anthropology professor Hylton White). At the same time, news out of Nepal report that China may have offered to complete unfinished USAID projects.
more generally. what kind of psychopath kills duck for fun?
and the purpose is? That low income people pay a private tax preparator?
I really think now that this guy has dementia.
already?? that's the supermarket price gouging!
It's shocking. Out of a Garcia Marquez novel. Like the Patriarch, who ordered time to be stopped.
It hurts to read this. The stupidity. This is the stuff of magic realism, not 21 century governance.
It's a very good title.
They are very campy. Mayor Meiner of Miami Beach wanted to put a horrendous plastic one in the middle of Lummus Park (the town's main park by the beach). Luckily he desisted.
or their butlers
Someone spraypainted a swastika on a Tesla.
I guess that's another risk now as well as exploding in flames.
People used to react like that to the unibrow until Frida Kahlo came along. Time to claim moustaches and beards!
sounds like Miami Beach, FL (except for the vehicle part). if they refuse "services", they are immediately taken to county jail.
Bravo for Claudia!
An important site to be aware of, for all immigrants and immigration scholars, advocates, and concerned persons.
True. There might have been stereotypes of veterinarians that the contemporary readers would relate the observation to...
I wonder about the significance of "veterinarian"...
and the anti-semitic label too.
They need to be flown to Martha's Vineyard!! 😂
Has that book been translated into English?
Thanks! 😂
You still don't!