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‘No populism, right or left, has so far produced a powerful remedy for the ills it denounces. The contemporary opponents of neoliberalism are still for the most part whistling in the dark.’ Online early: Perry Anderson on neoliberalism after the crash. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…

Benefit of the Doubt lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/apri…

On the Mar-a-Lago Secretary of State lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/may/…

‘Like powerful thunder’: Panic in Kashmir’s border villages as long-feared strikes finally come Residents on both sides of the Line of Control have been preparing for violence for days. It came in the middle of the night, with whistle of missiles overhead theguardian.com/world/2025/may…

Remembering Hugh Roberts lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/may/…

In 2019, a group of scientists led by Owen Toon, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, modelled the climatic effects of a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan in 2025. lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/may/…

"You think being in medias res is easy and this is the liberal cop out, whereas the hard thing is to do the structure? Have you ever even been to a single yoga session?" - Adam Tooze

Good, generous review of Disaster Nationalism by Daniel Trilling. Obviously I would haggle with some of it — esp the significance of the 2024 pogroms — but it’s judicious and many of the criticisms are fair enough. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…

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One thing that slipped under the radar this week and that says a lot about America today: OpenAI announced a partnership with Mattel and, separately, a $200 million contract with the Department of Defense. Everything is a toy, and everything is war.

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Iran's nuclear programme is mainly a diversionary justification for this - not a motive.

Trump's Midnight Hammer lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/june…

Rethinking Security's statement in response to today's National Security Strategy. rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

Always read the LRB Letters: on interwar British travel writing being fueled by contempt for the UK's "dying civilisation—decadent, but in such a damned dull way—going stuffy and comatose instead of collapsing beautifully like France" lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…

"Deaths of children younger than 5 years represented 51% of total deaths caused by sanctions over the 1970–2021 period"

Israeli military intelligence stores millions of hours of audio surveillance of Palestinians on Microsoft servers in the Netherlands. theguardian.com/world/2025/aug…