Doctored Admissions: The US University Admissions Scandal as a Global Problem
Not so much a Desperate Housewife as a desperate mother, a contrite Felicity Huffman, known for playing Lynette Scavo, has been convicted for her role […]
Articles by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Improper Purposes: Boris Johnson’s Suspension of Parliament
There was something richly amusing in the move: three judges, sitting in Scotland’s highest court of appeal, had little time for the notion that Prime […]
Farewelling Dr No: The Sacking of John Bolton
“Every time the president, or Pompeo, or anyone in the [Trump] administration came up with an idea, they had to face Dr No.” Cliff Kupchan, […]
Spikes of Violence: Protest in West Papua
Like Timor-Leste, West Papua, commonly subsuming both Papua and West Papua, remains a separate ethnic entity, acknowledged as such by previous colonial powers. Its Dutch […]
Boris Johnson Trips: Duvets, Toothbrushes and the House of Lords
In 2017, MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, a Tory creature trapped in cold storage, suggested that the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union was tantamount to fighting […]
Robert Mugabe’s Legacy: Revolution, Amity and Decline
Robert Mugabe is the sort of figure that always caused discomfort. He was a permanent revolutionary, becoming, in time, the despotic ruler who frittered away […]
The Courage of Saying No: Children, Rebellion and Greta Thunberg
There is something to be said of wariness when it comes to revolutionary voices. As Albert Camus argued in that beautiful tract of illumination and […]
World Systems and Capitalism: Immanuel Wallerstein’s Legacy
“The dead albatross that hangs around our neck is our legacy of arrogance, racism. And we must struggle to atone, to reconstruct, to create a […]
Inevitable Withdrawal: The US-Taliban Deal
It took gallons and flagons of blood, but it eventuated, a squeeze of history into a parchment of possibility: the Taliban eventually pushed the sole […]
Tradition, Marketing and Blacked Cognac
The moment the liquid hits the mark, lips on the balloon rim, the hand having swirled the mellow colouring to life, the throat anticipates. It […]
Timor-Leste and Australia: A Loveless Affair at Twenty
Cringe worthy, a touch molesting in sentiment: this was the celebratory occasion of the gathering of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison with his East Timorese […]
Unhinged before the Fall: Boris Johnson, Parliament and Brexit
The Brexit no deal prospect is engendering an element of lunacy fast seeping into every pore of the British political establishment. As with all steeped […]
Polishing Turds: Lord Bell’s Public Relations Revolution
“Morality is a job for priests. Not P.R. men.” (Tim Bell, New York Times, Feb 4, 2018). Lord Bell is dead, but his public relations […]
Justifications for Inequality: The Neuroses of Kochland
One of the brothers Koch, David, has shuffled off this mortal coil, and the pious few looking at his passing may well think he is […]
The Naming Industrial Complex: The Stupidity of Smart Devices and Smart Cities
Insentience cannot have intelligence, but the modern public relations revolution would have you think otherwise. Smart phones, smart bombs, and, it follows, Smart Cities (capitalising […]