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- Does Anyone Have the Right to Sex? https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/n06/amia-srinivasan/does-anyone-have-the-right-to-sex 2 comments
- Rather Break Than Bend https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n10/clare-jackson/rather-break-than-bend 13 comments
- Thou Old Serpent https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n05/james-butler/thou-old-serpent 7 comments
- Real Me and Fake Me https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n03/joe-dunthorne/diary 106 comments
- Out of Sir Vidia’s Shadow https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n04/paul-theroux/diary 4 comments
- I haven’t been I: On Fernando Pessoa (2021) https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n16/colm-toibin/i-haven-t-been-i 8 comments
- Flour Fixated https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n18/bee-wilson/flour-fixated 17 comments
- Pankaj Mishra | Fiction in a Post-Truth Age · LRB 16 February 2022 https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/february/fiction-in-a-post-truth-age 5 comments truereddit
- Perry Anderson · Ever Closer Union? · London Review of Books, 7 January 2021 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n01/perry-anderson/ever-closer-union? 4 comments europe
- The Corrupt Bargain https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n10/eric-foner/the-corrupt-bargain 21 comments truereddit
- What Europeans Talk about when They Talk about Brexit https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n01/on-brexit/what-europeans-talk-about-when-they-talk-about-brexit 3 comments europe
- Jerry Fodor's take-down of analytic philosophy https://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n20/jerry-fodor/waters-water-everywhere 5 comments philosophy
- Richard Rorty · To the Sunlit Uplands: a reply to Bernard Williams https://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n21/richard-rorty/to-the-sunlit-uplands 3 comments philosophy
- Schadenfreude with Bite http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n24/richard-seymour/schadenfreude-with-bite 3 comments politics
- Is this how democracy ends? http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n23/david-runciman/is-this-how-democracy-ends 10 comments politics
- Interesting piece on Brexit by John Lanchester in the London Review of Books. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n15/john-lanchester/brexit-blues 6 comments europe
- LRB · Patrick Cockburn · End Times for the Caliphate? http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n05/patrick-cockburn/end-times-for-the-caliphate 5 comments geopolitics
- Derek Parfit: "Why anything? Why this?" http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n02/derek-parfit/why-anything-why-this 20 comments philosophy
- Fine critical essay from Amia Srinivasan on "Effective Altruism" http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n18/amia-srinivasan/stop-the-robot-apocalypse 6 comments philosophy
- "Let's All Go To Mars." In John Lanchester's review of "Elon Musk," by Ashley Vance, there is an important tidbit: There are 2 Raptor engines under development. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n17/john-lanchester/lets-all-go-to-mars 14 comments spacex
- The Robots Stealing Our Jobs—Is It Inevitable? | "These chilling views aren’t unusual in Silicon Valley and the upper reaches of the overlord class. ... There’s no point feeling sad about it, this is just what’s going to happen. Yes, robots will eat the jobs—all the little people jobs, anyway." http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n05/john-lanchester/the-robots-are-coming 11 comments technology
- UK: "The Austerity Con" by Simon Wren-Lewis, Professor of Economics at University of Oxford's Merton College http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n04/simon-wren-lewis/the-austerity-con 4 comments europe
- Michael Hofmann's brutal review of Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n24/michael-hofmann/is-his-name-alwyn 3 comments books
- "Kafka was known to laugh uncontrollably when reading his work aloud to friends." http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n23/rivka-galchen/what-kind-of-funny-is-he 8 comments books
- The night Proust met Joyce http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2014/10/27/ben-jackson/mais-non-monsieur/ 4 comments books
- Julian Assange, to the ghostwriter of his memoir: ‘It needs to be more like Ayn Rand.’ Ghostwriter: ‘I don’t know if I can help you with that.’ http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n05/andrew-ohagan/ghosting 93 comments books
- US Lied about Syria 'Sarin Attack' http://www.lrb.co.uk/2013/12/08/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin 28 comments worldnews
- Sistema: the system of Russian corruption http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n23/peter-pomerantsev/diary 8 comments russia
- Sam Walton's creed, as Bezos understood it, was to have lower prices than your competitors, even if doing so cut into your profits or meant you had to treat your employees like garbage. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n23/deborah-friedell/kill-your-own-business 4 comments books
- In Chișinău: a lost passport brings a brief encounter with Moldovan bureaucracy http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2013/09/11/james-meek/in-chisinau/ 3 comments europe
- A.W. Moore reviews 'Writing the Book of the World', by Theodore Sider http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n16/aw-moore/carving-at-the-joints 6 comments philosophy
- ‘You can be reimbursed if and when the crisis ends, and you’re still alive’ http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2012/06/21/john-markakis/you-can-be-reimbursed-if-and-when-the-crisis-ends-and-youre-still-alive/ 3 comments europe
- Slavoj Žižek on Europe and the Greeks http://www.lrb.co.uk/2012/05/28/slavoj-zizek/save-us-from-the-saviours 75 comments europe
- The question is whether pressure from migrants who overstay their visas or come in undetected will lead to the kind of policies – on border control, detention and deportation – that will turn Europe into a federation of police states. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n03/jeremy-harding/europe-at-bay 3 comments worldevents
- Once Greece goes… http://www.lrb.co.uk/2011/06/30/john-lanchester/once-greece-goes 3 comments europe
- Richard Rorty reviews Naming and Necessity, by Saul Kripke http://www.lrb.co.uk/v02/n17/richard-rorty/kripke-versus-kant 4 comments philosophy
- Slavoj Žižek - Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n02/slavoj-zizek/good-manners-in-the-age-of-wikileaks 25 comments philosophy
- Why, oh why, does everyone go on about the brain? Fodor on brain-imaging technologies and cognitive science. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n19/jerry-fodor/diary 21 comments cogsci
- In Thailand, a populist political party wins by a landslide . As PM, the party’s leader enacts policies that halve poverty. The established elites fight back, eventually staging a military coop. “We had to stop democracy to save democracy,” they say. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n06/joshua-kurlantzick/red-v-yellow?? 105 comments worldnews
- If the bailout plan really is a ‘socialist’ measure, it is a very peculiar one: a ‘socialist’ measure whose aim is to help not the poor but the rich, not those who borrow but those who lend. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v00/n03/zize01_.html 5 comments politics
Linking pages
- GitHub - iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome: Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome 379 comments
- A Short History of the Trump Family | Asher Edelman https://asheredelman.com/2017/02/10/a-short-history-of-the-trump-family/ 3 comments
- Is the LRB the best magazine in the world? | London Review of Books | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/09/london-review-books-lrb-best-magazines-world-mary-kay-wilmers 2 comments
- It's the screens, not the internet,that are making us stupid | Technology | The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/04/charles.arthur 2 comments
- For MMT (long and wonkish) https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2019/06/04/for-mmt-long-and-wonkish/ 0 comments
- Technical details - by Ted Wiles - Weekend Collection https://weekendcollection.substack.com/p/technical-details 0 comments