A ‘National and Global Maelstrom’ Is Pulling Us
Under
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/opinion/trump-populism-great-misalignment.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/opinion/trump-populism-great-misalignment.html
The World Is Feeling the Angst of Liminality
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-01-11/the-us-and-world-are-feeling-the-angst-of-liminality
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-01-11/the-us-and-world-are-feeling-the-angst-of-liminality
Britain can still avoid America’s identity politics
fate
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/10/britain-can-still-avoid-americas-identity-politics-fate/
MADELINE GRANT:
Symptoms include mapping US concerns and political dramas on to our own. One recent example was the repeal of Roe vs Wade, which inevitably led to House of Commons debates about reproductive rights, despite our vastly different legal stance, and public opinion, on abortion. After George Floyd’s murder, protesters took to the streets of London shouting “stop, don’t shoot” at police officers who’d probably never handled a gun in their lives.
Another trend is in the world of DEI – “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” – a concept rooted in the US affirmative action rulings of the 20th century, designed to widen access particularly for African-Americans to US institutions and colleges. Despite British race relations and migration history being substantially different to America’s, the DEI agenda has been imported wholesale into British institutions.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/10/britain-can-still-avoid-americas-identity-politics-fate/
MADELINE GRANT:
Symptoms include mapping US concerns and political dramas on to our own. One recent example was the repeal of Roe vs Wade, which inevitably led to House of Commons debates about reproductive rights, despite our vastly different legal stance, and public opinion, on abortion. After George Floyd’s murder, protesters took to the streets of London shouting “stop, don’t shoot” at police officers who’d probably never handled a gun in their lives.
Another trend is in the world of DEI – “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” – a concept rooted in the US affirmative action rulings of the 20th century, designed to widen access particularly for African-Americans to US institutions and colleges. Despite British race relations and migration history being substantially different to America’s, the DEI agenda has been imported wholesale into British institutions.