Claude Lévi-Strauss at 100: echo of the future

openDemocracy - The impact of Lévi-Strauss’s work on anthropology itself is not commensurate with its universal fame. The study of kinship has lost its traditional centrality to the discipline, and has come to concentrate on issues of power or gender quite remote from Lévi-Straussian concerns. The study of mythology has gained neither much [...]

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India and Pakistan have a common extremist enemy

Independent - The slaughter in Mumbai has finally come to an end. But the political inquest into the atrocity is only beginning. Hundreds of angry Mumbai residents took to the streets yesterday to protest at the failure of the Delhi government to keep them safe. The Indian media, meanwhile, is asking pointed questions [...]

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Geert Wilders - ‘Our Culture Is Better’

WS Journal - By his own description, Geert Wilders is not a typical Dutch politician. “We are a country of consensus,” he tells me on a recent Saturday morning at his midtown Manhattan hotel. “I hate consensus. I like confrontation. I am not a consensus politician. . . . This is something [...]

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India Is Pointing in the Right Direction

Spiegel - Mumbai a terror zone, and India bitterly points its finger at Pakistan. The unloved neighbor needs all the help the West can offer. Pakistan is nearly a failed state — and a US invasion under President Obama can’t be ruled out.

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Our terrorising political failure

Hindustan Times - Terror sells in the electoral marketplace. It is valuable coin for any political formation which benefits from public insecurity, whose electoral promise is to make your life safer. Which is why we should take policymaking on terror out of the absolute control of the political puppet masters and allow [...]

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Lest We Forget

NY Times, by Paul Krugman - For once the economy is on the road to recovery, the wheeler-dealers will be making easy money again — and will lobby hard against anyone who tries to limit their bottom lines. Moreover, the success of recovery efforts will come to seem preordained, even though it [...]

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The problem with Hillary

Financial Times - Many bloggers, noting the heavy representation of Clinton administration veterans among Mr Obama’s nominees, complain that he has abandoned his message of change. This is foolish. The problem is that Bill and Hillary Clinton are strong, too. The power they accumulated during Mr Clinton’s presidency has not dissipated and [...]

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