A brief item excerpting some of Paris Marx’s conversation with The Mechanic and the Luddite author Jathan Sadowski on Marx’s show this week.
A brief item (extending in a way the theme of the preceding one) to mark some new listening in Asian literary & political history, with book talks by Sam Hodgkin on his Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism as point of entry.
A personal post for thinking about my ignorance of some American-music things not at all divorced from the popular mainstream.
A personal post sort of clumsily bringing Vlad Vexler into conversation (or at any rate collision) with Pankaj Mishra.
A brief item for holding a few paragraphs from near the end of 2012’s From the Ruins of Empire, by Pankaj Mishra.
A brief item to notice a conversation about secularism and generational change at Jewish Currents.
New pretty long, hopefully not too tedious personal post with reflections on religion and being a religious sort of person, prompted/provoked by among other things a recent episode of Know Your Enemy featuring Christian Wiman as guest.
An addendum updating Sunday’s blog post about Marx(ism)(s) with something further on the abolition question.