Author Archives: Michael Wehle

Isabella Hammad, Equator: as Freud himself argued in Mourning and Melancholia, proper mourning requires a person to acknowledge what exactly they have lost. If a loss is not brought into the full light of consciousness, grief curdles into melancholia. Stopping … Continue reading →

once the consequences of climate change start having a more concrete effect on the lives of individuals, it’s not impossible that attitudes toward the economic system may shift very quickly, in Europe as in the rest of the world. —Thomas … Continue reading →

After World War II, the German government devised another, noninflationary way of getting rid of its public debt: a monetary reform that divided the value of old debts by a hundred, coupled with a system of extremely high levies on … Continue reading →

there can be no resolution to the global warming crisis, no possible reconciliation between man and nature, without a drastic reduction in inequality and without a new economic system that is radically different from the current capitalist one. In describing … Continue reading →

Anton Jäger, New Left Review: Trump the hyperpolitician is a consequence of this elite disarticulation, providing agency absent a stabilizing structural frame. What Trump catalyses, of course, is more incoherence, as the contemporary condition of Europe shows. Here, a set … Continue reading →

Ho-fung Hung, New Left Review: Thus, just when the US global military umbrella – the longstanding foundation of dollar hegemony – is showing signs of weakening, the CCP’s party-state is inadvertently prolonging the dollar’s dominance. Short of profound financial reform … Continue reading →

Wikipedia: The dombra, also known as the dombyra (Kazakh: домбыра, dombyra; Persian: دمبوره, dambūra), is a long-necked, plucked lute used in the traditional music of the Kazakhs, Hazaras, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Nogais, Bashkirs and Tatars, and the principal national instrument of Kazakhstan.[1][2] Together with the bowed fiddle qyl-qobyz, it is one of the two most widely recognised symbols of Kazakh … Continue reading →

Text of the ruling: here.