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VIOLETTE JEAN has an ebook sale
at BOOKSHOP.ORG
Don't miss it.
Super Price $1.99
From JUNE 1 to JUNE 8
#bookshop.org
# readitclub
#books
#bookstodon
#violettejeanbooks.com
#booksky
#lrb.uk
#nybooks.com
ENJOY!
James Butler's article on #GortonAndDenton in #LRB is astute, especially about the strategic folly of the so-called "#LabourParty". A fine read: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/february/just-voting / https://archive.is/xgwDa
But I was very struck by Butler's comments on the divide in #ReformUK. I assume that the billionaire media which fuels Reform will drive the #cultureWar as far as it can go without splitting Reform until Reform has had power to do phase 1 damage. Then they back the ultras.
Any other thoughts?
Lovely piece found in my #lrb backlog about handwriting, the brain and the “line that is not stupid”
Anne Carson · Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/anne-carson/beware-the-man-whose-handwriting-sways-like-a-reed-in-the-wind
I very much enjoyed this piece from Adam Shatz on America in the new LRB
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/adam-shatz/another-country #lrb
@cstross Reminds me of this article of Richard Rorty’s from 2004.
> In a worst-case scenario, historians will someday have to explain why the golden age of Western democracy […] lasted only about two hundred years.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v26/n07/richard-rorty/post-democracy #LRB
The #LRB pod talks with historian #GregGrandin about the US attack on #Venezuela -- "what the intervention reveals about #Trump’s intentions in the region and his wider foreign policy, and why, as in the past, such adventures will ultimately expose the limits of US power."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/on-politics-venezuela-and-the-trump-doctrine
#Maduro #USpol #USpolitics #USforeignPolicy #LatinAmerica #imperialBullying