While politics and ethics get debated someone somewhere is going ahead with gene editing. Personally, re-reading Huxley’s dystopia recently- it seemed better than this dystopia. From the Washington Post:   […]

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Article by Gloria Steinem from the April 4, 1969 issue of New York Magazine which they have reprinted this month. Once upon a time—say, ten or…

http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2015/12/paris-climate-summit-survey-reveals.html

http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/ideas_20151130_63676.mp3 “In one part of his 2009 IDEAS series about France, Gilbert Reid explored the riots in 2005 that spread from the high rise suburbs outside Paris across the country, leaving thousands […]

“In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is, simply, this: a man is […]

To call for the overthrow of the existing order May seem a terrible thing But what exists is no order. To seek refuge in violence May seem evil. But what […]

“The Rojava Experiment November 29, 2015 by Adrian J Ivakhiv Wes Enzinna’s New York Times Magazine article on “The Rojava Experiment” finally gives mainstream recognition to what has been happening […]

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Proletarian dying of the universe, in what frantic harmony will your greatness end, your misery, your driving maelstrom, your methodical violence, your chaos theoretical and practical -Cesar Vallejo

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The pure products of America go crazy— mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves old names and […]