Einstein was right !

“Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind”. Albert Einstein It was nationalism that was a major cause of the First World War and the Second one, too, although the nationalism was a trifle one-sided in that case. There are many good things about living in the US, but the nationalism of a certain …

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Do mothers pass on their anxiety?

Some people may be more prone to anxiety than others because they “caught” their mother’s stress in the womb, scientists claim. The team, from the Queen’s Medical Research Unit at the University of Edinburgh, has found that a component of the placenta which protects unborn babies from high levels of stress hormones in the mother’s …

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The neoliberal “philosophy”, continued

Following the lively discussion yesterday between Owen and Ezra I would like to return to the issue of “neoliberalism”. The best way to do this is to quote a review by Eugene McCarreher of a book by Philp Mirowski called How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown, (Verso, $29.95) In the neoliberal imagination, the human person is …

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