First, that our attention rarely belongs to us; it is the plaything of others. And second, that the āreal worldā, as it is presented to us, rarely reflects anything we might usefully be able to label as objective reality
There is a kind of tragic karma to the fact that so many major countries ā meaning major economies ā are today run by the very men least equipped ideologically, emotionally and spiritually to deal with the virus
The US health system is by far the most expensive in the world, but also the most inefficient
Understanding power and overcoming it through that understanding is the only path to liberation we can take as individuals, as societies, and as a species
The imminent departure of Jeremy Corbyn as leader will not end the damage that has been done to Labour by such claims
By pushing the Middle East peace process to its logical conclusion, Donald Trump has made crystal clear something that was supposed to have been obscured: that no US administration has ever really seen peace as the objective of its āpeacemakingā
The connecting thread of that story is not antisemitism. It is white European racism. And the fact that Israel and its supporters have signed up as cheerleaders for that kind of racism makes it no less white and no less racist
No one, least of all the Trump administration, believes that this plan will lead to peace. A more realistic concern is how quickly it will pave the way to greater bloodshed
This was an election of two illusions. The first helped persuade much of the British public to vote last week for the…
Chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has misrepresented the known facts about Labour and its supposed antisemitism crisis
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