What keeps me awake at night
We are pretty rubbish as a species. We are not very good at passing on our genes or our bits (digital information). The longest-living legacy of ours is likely to be our crap, in the form of...
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Various Articles
The L.A. Times today is chock-full of articles relevant to P&C. The lead story is on the massive demonstrations against proposed draconian laws against illegal immigration. They say it’s the...
View ArticleHappy Martin Luther King Day; God Bless the Labor Movement
I have not read MLK‘s autobiography; nor have I read M. K. Gandhi‘s The Story of My Experiments with Truth or Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom. New Left Review 42 (November/December 2006) is out....
View ArticleHighlights from New Left Review 44
I am assuming that the gentle readers of Pie and Coffee also get their news from the BBC and the Guardian so we don’t have to alert you to anything already reported there. Gentle readers might also...
View ArticleBrodsky on the Sermon on the Mount
Twenty years ago the following scene took place in one of the numerous prison yards of northern Russia. At seven o’clock in the morning the door of a cell was flung open and on its threshold stood a...
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Neo-Marxists on Christianity
Recent books from Verso: Slavoj Žižek (2000) The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Is Worth Fighting For? ISBN 978-1-85984-770-1. Terry Eagleton (2007) Jesus Christ: The Gospels. ISBN...
View ArticleFar-out ideas in practical economics
Will the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali this week give us Contraction and Convergence? Then, will it be implemented as carbon rationing or personal carbon trading? Will the decresing...
View ArticleReligious figures address the European Parliament
I mentioned in these pages that the “green†Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, addressed the European Parliament earlier this year. This was as part of a series...
View ArticleJust another manic Monday
At one o’clock Monday morning, I counted the votes to select a parliamentary candidate for the Green Party in the Oxford East constituency, to replace Peter Tatchell who had to stand down due to...
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Thinking a few steps ahead
(To appear in Issue 2 of the Oxford Left Review.) ‘One of the most encouraging developments in the emergent intellectual space […] has been a new willingness to advocate the Necessary rather than the...
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