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Akeel Bilgrami on identity, inner life and stereotyping
Interview with Akeel Bilgrami. Published : Jan 28, 2022 06:00 IST Jipson John Jitheesh P.M. COMMents 0 SHARE READ LATER Akeel Bilgrami. Akeel Bilgrami is an Indian philosopher of international eminence and influence. He graduated from Elphinstone College, University of Bombay, in 1970 and went to the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Thereafter, he moved…
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Dear friend, 1978. 1982. 2006. 2024. Once again Israeli military forces muster to the North, preparing to invade Lebanon. On Wednesday, Herzi Halevi, the head of Israel’s military, set out the plan to his troops in plain terms. “Your military boots,” he said, “will enter enemy territory.” And on Saturday, Israel warplanes assassinated Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of…
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by Jingyi Zhang (Sep 01, 2024) Topics: Capitalism Feminism Inequality Marxism Political Economy Places: Asia India Jingyi Zhang is a PhD student at the Department of International Development, King’s College London. Smitha Radhakrishnan, Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India (Durham: Duke University Press, 2022), 272 pages, $27.95, paperback. Microfinance has become a salient sector for poverty reduction in the developing world since its inception in the…
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By Fredric Jameson (Posted Sep 26, 2024) History, MarxismLost & FoundFeatured, Fredric Jameson This essay was originally published in Monthly Review 47, no. 11 (April 1996). ~ (Dedicated to the memory of William Pomerance) First Thesis “Postmarxisms” regularly emerge at those moments in which capitalism itself undergoes a structural metamorphosis. Marxism is the science of capitalism, or better still, in…
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ByBen Wray The US has built up an elaborate machinery for waging economic warfare on its rivals with little or no public debate. This sanctions-industrial complex is a disguised form of imperialism and a dangerous source of global instability. Shawn Fain Review of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman…
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