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Australienating
Institutionalised abuse of Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory
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Global capitalism frees private owners from the social controls that sovereign States alone are strong enough to impose on them
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Documenting what’s left
We need an independent State conservation-promotion office
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Mad
The Madhouse effect nails climate madness
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The 1916 Rhinzone
We are not required by the film to consider sectarian inequality, the corruption of London administrations, underinvestment, the racism of Paisleyism, centuries of colonialism, or cronyism in all walks of life
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Oceanic Consciousness
Neo-Darwinian consensus is cast in doubt by the new era of Epigenetics that suggests genetic codes are altered by the use of certain faculties by an organism over the course of its life
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Left – egalitarian
Political commentary doesn’t “always” couple populism with far-right. South America, Podemos, Syriza, People Before Profit and the AAA are far-left populists
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Mad
Imagine for a moment the dilemma: you’re a celebrated paleoclimatologist whose work has helped shape the modern science of climate change. In the course of your work, you have gradually come to the same basic conclusion as most of your professional colleagues: humanity and the industrial civilisation we have constructed is hurtling on a oneway […]
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Good or bad not right or left
What does “left” mean today now that socialism is no longer on offer?
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Public sect or agent of equality
here’s a new duty in town
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Action (not Acts)!
Most of our often impressive disability legislation has simply not been commenced
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MonbiotLiberation from Neoliberalism
Alternative needed to this pervasive zombie doctrine
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Australienating
On July 25th 2016, Australia’s ABC network broadcast a documentary from its ‘Four Corners’ series that was to shake the country’s reputation. ‘Australia’s Shame’, exposed the conditions and practices of the Northern Territory’s Don Dale youth detention facility in Darwin, and revealed the harrowing circumstances in which children were being kept. Of the detainees incarcerated […]
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Nationalism, nativism, populism are in the air these days. Their relation to democracy is widely seen as problematic. Can political philosophy help? I offer Village readers this ABC of the so-called “national question”: A. For democrats and progressives internationalism, not nationalism, is the primary value. We are internationalists out of solidarity as members of the […]
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Slow but surer
The European Commission has made impressive efforts to secure the wellbeing of Roma and Travellers across the Member States. In 2011, it developed the ‘EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies up to 2020’ to tackle the marginalisation and poor socio-economic conditions of the Roma (including Irish Travellers). Each Member State was required to draw […]
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Oceanic Consciousness
We think of ourselves as unique, and so we are, but defining individuality is problematic. Ninety percent of a person’s cells – mostly bacteria – are not their own while those cells with our distinct genetic codes only last up to ten years. In terms of consciousness this poses questions such as: where is memory […]
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Action (not Acts)!
When a State enacts legislation that creates a right for a category of person, it is acknowledging that society has excluded or marginalised those people and is seeking to rectify this. This is why people with disabilities welcomed the Assisted Decision- Making Act 2015 last year. It is why, despite some misgivings, they welcomed the […]
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Public sect or agent of equality
What is it about Irish legislation? We set up this complicated institutional apparatus to enact it. We elect all sorts to devise and deliberate on it. Much of the time of civil society is diverted to lobbying for it. Legislation doesn’t come cheap or easy. However, while we are entitled to have some minimum expectations, […]