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Social Pathology
Todd Hayen
We, as a society, are rotting away, and most people don’t even know it, and if they do, they...
Three(ish) New Reads – March
Philip Roddis Just two reads this month. (You’ll see why when you clock the word count of the first...
Three New Reads: February
Philip Roddis This month brings that rarest of occurrences. I’m recommending a Guardian piece: a tour of the mind...
Three New Reads – December
Philip Roddis What would you do if stuck in a lift with John Pilger? Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger,...
Three New Reads – November
Philip Roddis At the beginning of this month the most dangerous nation on earth held the four yearly circus[1] by...
Three New Reads – October
Philip Roddis China leads the race for 5G leadership, a fact not only deeply alarming to Washington and Wall...
Three New Reads – September
Philip Roddis Some folks – I’m tempted to call them psychological sectarians, more interested in ‘othering’ those outside their...
Three New Reads – August
Philip Roddis There’s been more than one reason for my long silence on CV-19, so readers might forgive me...
Three New Reads – July
Philip Roddis I won’t beat about the bush. The West is inhabited by two groups: those who know that...
Three New Reads – June
Was Pyongyang’s destruction this month of a border town ‘liaison office’ – touted as symbol of reconciliation but in...
Three New Reads – May
As I had last month, I’d wanted in my three reads this month to start addressing the alarming bellicosity...
Three New Reads – April
Philip Roddis For weeks my political focus has narrowed almost exclusively to Covid-19. It’s not that I haven’t noted...
Three New Reads – February
Philip Roddis Reshaping global food production in the image of corporate imperialism, a brief and bloody history of capitalism...
Three (or Four) New Reads – January
Philip Roddis The Roaring Twenties began with a bang. Whatever else the decade may bring, chronologers will look back...
Three New Reads – December
Philip Roddis And so this is Christmas, what have you done? The old year is over, a new one...
Three New Reads – November
Is Britain’s forthcoming general election the most critical since 1945? Or just since 1979? While the Johnny Walker wisdom...
Three New Reads – October
Aptly enough – one hundred and two years to the month since those ‘Ten Days that Shook the World’...
Three New Reads – September
Philip Roddis Let none accuse me of frivolity. My three selected reads this month address subjects that could not...
Three New Reads – August
Philip Roddis Today’s selection is on the face of it an eclectic mix, taking in the non-dualism of Indian...