Page 28 - Terry Eagleton News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

  April 29,2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Media Lens — Long before ‘the propaganda model’ flew off Edward Herman’s keyboard and into ‘Manufacturing Consent’, the book he co-authored with Noam Chomsky, Leo Tolstoy had captured the essence of non-conspiratorial conformity: ‘One man does not assert the truth which he knows, because he feels himself bound to the people with whom he is engaged; another, because the truth might deprive him of the profitable position by which he maintains his family; a third, because he desires to attain...

by Media Lens / April 19th, 2021 Long before ‘the propaganda model’ flew off Edward Herman’s keyboard and into Manufacturing Consent, the book he co-authored with Noam Chomsky, Leo Tolstoy had captured the essence of non-conspiratorial conformity: One man does not assert the truth which he knows, because he feels himself bound to the people with whom he is engaged; another, because the truth might deprive him of the profitable position by which he maintains his family; a third, because he desires to attain reputation and authority, and then use them in the service of mankind; a fourth,...

This work offers an account of the heroes and villains, legends and foibles of the four nations that inhabit the British Isles. Raphael Samuel is interested by the face that traditions can disappear no less abruptly than they were invented. How is it, he asks, that the Scots have lost interest in a British narrative of which they were once a central protagonist? Why is the celebration of "Britons" thriving today just as its object has become problematic? The book conveys the mutability of national conceits. Samuels calls as witness numerous authorities - Bede and Gerald of Barri, Macaulay and...

Graham Greene (left) and Maria Aurora Couto | Photograph of Maria Aurora Couto by Frederick Noronha. At 19, I was obsessed with a man I did not know. Graham Greene’s novels were among the works prescribed for my Master’s degree. My admiration for Greene’s writing was clouded by irritation with critical assessments that labelled Greene a “Catholic” novelist (along with Evelyn Waugh). These analyses, often misguided, I believed, by highly structured theological arguments, diminished and even erased the tragic dimensions of our lives and world. Greene’s skills as ...

On this day in Black History... Feb 22, 1841 Grafton Tyler Brown, lithographer and painter, born The athlete and boxer Abe Attell , byname the Little Champ was born February 22, 1884, San Francisco, California – On this day in 1888, legendary painter Horace Pippin was born Feb 22, 1898 Black postmaster lynched and his wife and three daughters shot and maimed for life in Lake City, S.C. – On this day in 1911, poet, activist, and social reformer Frances Ellis Watkins Harper died Robert Smalls died in Beaufort, Texas on February 22, 1915 and is buried there with his family. Robert Smalls (Ap...