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By Mark Bahnisch on October 12, 2009
SocProf links to a really fascinating piece on Obama’s Nobel Prize [previous LP discussion here] by Don Waisanen at ThickCulture, riffing on Weber’s characterisation of modernity as disenchantment of the world. It would appear that the Nobel committee at least [...]
Posted in Culture, Imperialism, International, Politics, Sociology, USA, War | Tagged barack obama, Bush administration, disenchantment, George W. Bush, Max Weber, modernity, Nobel Peace Prize, Politics, postmodernism, postmodernity, reenchantment, rhetoric, Sociology |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 8, 2009
This post provides space for a continuation of the discussion on the previous thread about the Israeli attacks on Gaza. As a discussion starter, there’s a wealth of interesting commentary at Open Democracy. Paul Rogers looks at the current situation [...]
Posted in Disasters, Ethics, Foreign policy, Imperialism, International, Law, Middle East, Palestine, Politics, USA, War | Tagged Bush administration, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Middle East, Obama administration, Open Democracy, peace, violence |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 5, 2009
Since the previous thread on the Israeli attacks on Gaza was becoming unwieldy with 425 comments to scroll through, and several commenters requested a new thread, comments are continued on this thread from here. Update: A new post on the [...]
Posted in International, Middle East, Palestine, Terrorism, War | Tagged Bush administration, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Middle East, Obama administration, peace, violence |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 29, 2008
Hilzoy has something pointed to say about the “pornography of destruction” engulfing the Gaza strip and adjacent areas of Israel: One of the many things that makes the Israeli/Palestinian conflict so utterly dispiriting is that it’s impossible to think of [...]
Posted in Disasters, Foreign policy, Imperialism, Middle East, Palestine, Terrorism, USA, War | Tagged Bush administration, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Middle East, Obama administration, peace, violence |
By Kim on September 30, 2008
The Nancy Pelosi speech that made the Republicans cry: Context in this post about the Congressional rejection of TARP.
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Markets, USA | Tagged Bush administration, credit crisis, financial markets, George W. Bush, GOP, henry paulson, House Democrats, House Republicans, Nancy Pelosi, Paulson bailout, TARP, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 29, 2008
The question’s in the air at the moment. In the Australian blogosphere, John Quiggin thinks the financial markets crisis has killed it off, while Nicholas Gruen is (rightly in my view) more skeptical. [In response to commenters, Quiggin goes on [...]
Posted in China, Developing world, Economics, Foreign Elections, Foreign policy, International, Markets, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, USA, War | Tagged barack obama, Ben bernanke, Bush administration, christopher dodd, credit crisis, economic management, economic sociology, federal reserve, financial markets, henry paulson, market bailout, neoliberalism, political ideologies, political sociology, social democracy, socialism, sovereign wealth funds, sub prime mortgages, TARP, us economy, US election 2008, us treasury, USA Election 2008, Wall Street, Washington consensus |
By Kim on September 25, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/bill_clinton.jpeg" align=left I’m going to go out on a limb here. Bill Clinton is the only genuine political talent that creaking heap of donkeys, the beloved Democratic Party, has produced in an age. Damn that Twenty-Second Amendment. Obama plays [...]
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Markets, USA | Tagged american election 2008, barack obama, Bill Clinton, Bush administration, Democratic Party, Democrats, financial crisis, financial markets, GOP, Henry Farrell, henry paulson, John McCain, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street |
By Kim on September 24, 2008
In an interview where he displayed to the full his immense self-regard, and incidentally engaged in his now customary tease about his future in politics, Peter Costello was asked by Tony Jones to comment on his warnings during the election [...]
Posted in China, Foreign policy, Markets, Media, USA | Tagged Ben bernanke, Bush administration, christopher dodd, economic management, federal reserve, financial markets, henry paulson, liberal leadership, market bailout, Peter Costello, sovereign wealth funds, TARP, us treasury, Wall Street |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 19, 2008
As a supplement to earlier posts on the sociology of the global financial crisis from Kim and dk.au, I thought I’d note something very interesting written by Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber. Farrell traces the shift in paradigm in the [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Markets, Media, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, Ben bernanke, Bill Clinton, Bush administration, City of London, credit crisis, economic sociology, financial crisis, financial markets, financial regulation, globalisation, gordon brown, Henry Farrell, henry paulson, John McCain, Jon Cruddas, Labour, neoliberalism, New Labour, political economy, political sociology, Robert Skidelsky, social democracy, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science, sub prime crisis, US election 2008, us treasury, USA Election 2008, Wall Street |
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