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  • “Why live where landslides can nearly kill you?”

    This is Southasia Weekly, your regular update on the latest from Himal and across the region. If you only read one email from us all week, this should be it.Himal brings you grounded reportage and analysis on Southasian politics and culture. Help us keep doing it. Support independent Southasian journalism Hi roots1952,In “Called by the Hills: A Home…

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  • Centuries of Childhood

    The history of childhood is one of multiplicity — so why do we tell parents such simplistic stories about it? Benjamin Breen Jun 11, 2024 One of my favorite documentaries is the 2010 French film Babies. Told without narration, it follows four babies in four cultures: Mongolia, Namibia, California, and Japan. Here’s the trailer: I first…

  • The bizarre state of Western democracy

    By Prabhat Patnaik (Posted Sep 07, 2024) Democracy in America, from the Early Republic to the Jacksonian Era. (Photo: brewminate.com) Originally published: Peoples Democracy  on September 8, 2024 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |  Class, Democracy, Empire, ImperialismAmericas, Britain, Europe, United Kingdom, United StatesNewswire DURING the entire post-war period when it has been in existence in the metropolitan countries, democracy has never been in as…

  • How censorship conquered the world, again

    The great age of rising standards of living was also the age of the marketplace of ideas; truth telling goes hand in hand with optimism. In the absence of prosperity and community cohesion, ideas are vulnerable to the censor.An engraving of Fama from Virgil’s Aeneid. Credit: piemags/rmn / Alamy Stock Photo ‘Who you gonna believe,…

  • PI Briefing | No. 35 | Summit of the Future

    In a special ceremony in New York City on 12 September, the PI will launch a comprehensive Program of Action on the New International Economic Order. In the Progressive International’s 35th Briefing of 2024, we bring the latest news from the PI’s two year long project on the New International Economic Order. Tomorrow, the 79th…

  • Dumbarton Oaks: creating a new world order

    Eighty years ago, representatives of the soon-to-be victorious allied powers gathered outside Washington DC to lay the foundations of the United Nations. Examining how delegates dealt with the enduring dilemmas of internationalism provides a lesson in how to deal with our global future.Some of the participants in the second session of the Dumbarton Oaks post-war…

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