Tag: global affairs

• ‘Cultural appropriation is a two-way thing’: Yinka Shonibare on Picasso, masks and the fashion for black artists

  June 15, 2021

  “After Matisse showed Picasso African art for the first time,” he says, “it changed the history of modern art.” This is no hyperbole. It immediately led Picasso to repaint Les Demoiselles… more ›

• Do Better Better #7: The New Externalities

  June 13, 2021

  Questions might include — what’s changed over the past decade, and why? What about over the past year? Who are the industry leaders by revenue, profit, and growth? Are they… more ›

• The Tyranny Of Time

  June 13, 2021

  On a damp and cloudy afternoon on February 15, 1894, a man walked through Greenwich Park in East London. His name was Martial Bourdin — French, 26 years of age,… more ›

• China’s takeover of Western capitalism

  June 13, 2021

  Congenica is not the sort of company a lot of people follow closely. The Cambridge-based start-up specialises in genomics, an area most of us struggle to understand. https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/chinas-takeover-of-western-capitalism/ more ›

• ‘A question of dignity’: the pathologist identifying migrants drowned in the Med

  June 6, 2021

  Since 2013, Cattaneo, a professor of forensic pathology and head of Labanof (the laboratory of forensic anthropology and odontology) at the University of Milan, has been committed to putting a name to… more ›

• How the World Ran Out of Everything

  June 1, 2021

  Global shortages of many goods reflect the disruption of the pandemic combined with decades of companies limiting their inventories. In the story of how the modern world was constructed, Toyota… more ›

• The $3bn bargain: how China dominates Pacific mining, logging and fishing

  May 31, 2021

  One country dominates the Pacific’s resources extraction. Guardian analysis of trade data has revealed that China received more than half the total tonnes of seafood, wood and minerals exported from… more ›

• US Soldiers Expose Nuclear Weapons Secrets Via Flashcard Apps

  May 29, 2021

  Practice weapons are usually recognisable by their colours. The B61’s are silver/grey (sometimes referred to as the “silver bullet”), while BDU-38’s appear to be white. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/05/28/us-soldiers-expose-nuclear-weapons-secrets-via-flashcard-apps/ more ›

• The Unveiling of Bolsonaro’s Supervillain Plot Is Weirdly Gripping

  May 27, 2021

  Ms. Barbara is a contributing opinion writer who focuses on Brazilian politics, culture and everyday life. SÃO PAULO, Brazil — It’s not often that a congressional inquiry can lift your… more ›

• The “TikTok intifada”

  May 23, 2021

  Usually Palestinians and their allies struggle to have their narrative break through online. Not anymore. Israel unquestionably has the military advantage in its ongoing conflict with Hamas. But in the… more ›