In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. As Isabel Hilton asks: What does 2006 have in store? (Part one)
The question that all anti-authoritarian movements have to face, sooner or later, is: on what ground does your opposition arise? In other words, within any movement against improper authority there
The American calamity of the presidential election of 2 November 2004 triggered a predictable sequence of mourning, rage, despair, and inertia on the American left. Six months on, oppositional energies
openDemocracy: In your pre-election column the one you received most emails from readers about you quoted a taxi driver in Washington DC who was worried Bush would steal the election.
In my last column before the election I want to try to convey something of the fever in which America is gripped - not by summoning up statistics about vast
I wrote back in July of the volcanic rise of the paramedia, a cheerful enragés jumble of rambunctious media outbursts in many flavours: comedy shows and DVD docs (latest:
Much of the postmortem chat after the third presidential debate is focusing on Bushs emotional flipflops, you might say: the president was petulant in Miami, venomous in St.
Albert Camus told us that after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. The habits of welcome and repulsion, openness and deceit, materialize they crystallize into the
John Kerry, his back to a wall that was partly of his own construction, came out of the first psychodrama sorry, debate of the campaign sounding like a commanderin
Watching John Kerry speak at length and at long last about Iraq on 20 Septemper, I realized yet again just what the man is up against.
Kerrys internal critics
Multitudes who despise politics are today discovering politics discovering, as Marshall Berman once put it (paraphrasing Trotsky), that they may not be interested in politics but politics is interested in
So is the war party the steamroller after all? Is Kerry sunk? Can he come back?
For the last few weeks, the Swift Boat barrage smacked Kerry around at what
