This week, I’ve been thinking about a book – You Can’t Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024 by Tariq Ali, published by Verso in 2024. I’ve been thinking about it, but I’ve been quite uncertain how to talk about it. Let me explain. Tariq Ali is a well-known radical and writer. He was born into a prominent …
Month: February 2025
This week, I’ve been thinking about left political sensibility…and about how I’m worried that mine is not the best suited for the era that we’re entering. I’m not a big believer in generational explanations for political things. Sure, your age, or your life stage, or the fact that you’re a Boomer or a Millenial or …
I’ve been thinking, this week, about the politics of communication and about an older radical that I used to do activist stuff with. The starting point for this reflection is an article that I read. The topic of the article doesn’t matter, but it was smart and I mostly agreed with it. But I was …
I’ve been thinking, this past week, about the distinctly chaotic, disorienting feel that the world has when Donald Trump is sitting on the throne in the United States. In saying this, I’m not claiming he has some sort of monopoly on awfulness – to give just one example, clearly that is not the case given …