New Catallaxy

  • Meme of the Day #22

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #12

    So who was Anthony James ? Movies have a peculiar power to transfix and mesmerise us, planting their images in our sub-conscious that for a variety of reasons remain there in which time does not dim. We all have movies and/or scenes that for whatever reason frightened us when we were much younger, and have…

  • Cool Heads Needed

    Let’s suppose, fairly safely, that Putin is a thug, a megalomaniac even, as the Western media has it. In which case, calling him names will be water off a duck’s back. It might be cathartic but it won’t help Ukrainians. Will severe financial, commercial and trade sanctions on Russia help? Will seizing the assets of…

  • Meme of the Day #21

  • Meme of the Day #20

  • Open Thread – Tues 8 March 2022

  • Meme of the Day #19

  • Is Putin in the bunker?

    A week can be a long time in war. The Russian president cut a diminished figure as he met with the same National Security Council by video link from an undisclosed location on Thursday. There were dark patches beneath his eyes and he seemed to falter as he stood to honour the Russian dead. Away…

  • Guest Post: Rabz’ Radio Show March 2022: New Wave 1978-1985

    Cats – it had to happen – my favourite musical genre, featuring many of my favourite ever bands. By 1978, after Punk’s initial incendiary impact had waned, it was clear that “the Seventies” as we knew them, were over. Disco and various ponderous excruciating MOR dinosaurs had been condemned to the musical dustbin of history.…

  • Growing up in Mao’s China

    Hot off the press! A close and personal look at the Cultural Revolution. A timely reminder of the way communist regimes behave when push comes to shove. The story of Amei’s life began in a warm and comfortable family in an inner suburb of Beijing. Her time in the selective high school is delightful until…

  3. This is a working professor in the field, I like his clobber. Dressed for the occasion, don’t see the need…

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