Author and sociology teacher (and regular OffG contributor) Edward Curtin joins Jesse Zurawell on the most recent episode of Perspective from TNTRadio. The pair discuss Ed’s recent piece At...
Sinead Murphy As 2020 dawned, two concepts came to loom on our horizon: ‘pandemic’ and ‘lockdown.’ Within a month or two, they had cast their pall over the whole...
Todd Hayen For something to be a “new” normal, it must reach some measure of consensual normalcy. What is normalcy? Many people believe it is whatever sits at the...
Julien Charles The world watched in varying states of mind as the Davos set enjoyed its annual turn on the world stage, supping on sumptuous Atlantic crab and fresh...
Mattias Desmet is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ghent University in Belgium. His theory of mass formation during the coronavirus crisis has become widely known and widely misunderstood...
Todd Hayen PhD Stop the party, folks, it’s not over until the fat lady sings, and she is only taking a break. I’ve written about this premature euphoria several...
Todd Hayen Whatever happened to that (the free and the brave)? Whatever happened to the attitude that had Patrick Henry at the Virginia convention in 1775 say “give me...
Edward Curtin Once upon a time in my youthful naiveté, I would mock those who said they believed in out-of-space aliens and flying saucers. In my hubris, I even...
Todd Hayen PhD What is all the excitement about? People everywhere celebrating a vax jab with social media pics of their vaccine card, stickers that proudly state “I Got...
Martin Cohen “The end of everything we call life is at hand and cannot be evaded” H. G. Wells (1946) The coronavirus doesn’t just make individual people ill –...
by Stephen Corry, via CounterPunch The last few years have seen an alarming increase in claims that tribal peoples have been shown to be more violent than we are....