Patronizing talk of “non-violent” Middle East protests
In yesterday’s New York Daily News, Stanley Crouch wrote that uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya were a “victory for non-violence”:
Now that Black History Month is ending and the Middle East has shown a fresh ...
A faux war in Wisconsin
This is not a return of class war to America. It’s a clash between nervous-nellie Republicans and trade unions that can only play the victim card.
Read my spiked article in full here.
This week’s articles of note
“How Chris Christie did his homework,” New York Times Magazine, by Matt Bai
“What the census tells us about America’s future,” Forbes, by Joel Kotkin
“The Madoff tapes,” New York, by Steven Fishman
“Business as usual: the next Wall Street collapse,” Boston Review, by Jonathan Kirshner [Review of four ...
This week’s articles of note
“Wanted: a grand strategy for America,” Newsweek, by Niall Ferguson [on “Obama’s Egypt debacle”]
“The politics of the new middle America,” The American Prospect, by E.J. Dionne
“Why isn’t Wall Street in jail?” Rolling Stone, by Matt Taibbi
“Daniel Bell, master builder,” New York Times Book Review, by Sam ...
Finance and the real economy
The Lex column in yesterday’s Financial Times picks up on the International Monetary Fund’s recent self-evaluation, in a piece entitled “Ignorant economists”. Specificially, Lex notes that one of the IMF’s self-confessed shortcomings was an “inadequate understanding of how finance influences the real economy”:
The greatest challenge for all economists is to understand the dynamics of ...
Obama on Egypt: more confused than cool
The idea that Obama played it “brilliantly cool” on Egypt represents a spectacular rewriting of history.
Read my spiked article in full here.
This week’s articles of note: post-Mubarak edition
This week’s edition is a post-Mubarak reading list:
“Mubarakism without Mubarak: why Egypt’s military will not embrace democracy,” Foreign Affairs, by Ellis Goldberg
“Why Egypt’s progressives win,” Al Jazeera, by Paul Adam
“Who lost Egypt? Not Obama,” Foreign Policy, by Aaron David Miller
“Mubarak resignation creates vacuum for US in ...
Good riddance to Mubarak, now take on the military
Bye Bye Mubarak from Ramy Rizkallah on Vimeo.
Mubarak is gone – congratulations to the Egyptian people! The video above, shot by Egyptian film-maker Ramy Rizkallah, captures the celebrations shortly after the announcement that Mubarak was stepping down.
Egyptians’ courageous protests have been a ...
Showdown in Egypt: may the people prevail!
Egypt went from festive jubilation to anger last night as Mubarak refused to step down. It was a disappointment felt around the world.
It has become clear that the army is backing the Mubarak-Suleiman regime. The military’s statement today, “communique #2”, said the army will ensure that the reforms will be enacted, including ...
Do the global elite serve the masses?
That’s the motion of the current debate hosted by The Economist. It features Jamie Whyte, who argues “for”, and Daniel Ben-Ami, who argues “against”. This topic was also the conclusion to a January 20th special feature in the magazine on global leaders.
Ben-Ami’s argument is not a simplistic, “the rich are bastards” one. Instead, ...
ABOUT SEAN COLLINS
I write about American current affairs for Spiked, the online magazine. I am a native New Yorker, and I divide my time between New York City and upstate New York.
In addition to articles for Spiked, The Australian and other publications, I contributed an essay, "BDS: Demonizing Israel, Destroying Free Speech," for the book Unsafe Space: The Crisis of Free Speech on Campus (2016). I also wrote a chapter on New York City's economy for the book London After Recession: A Fictitious Capital? (2012).
My writings have been cited in American Conservative, Arts & Letters Daily, the Financial Times, Fox News, the Huffington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, the New York Times, Real Clear Politics, and the Times of London, among other media.
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