For many years I’ve lived in paradise—the Upper West Side. We have convivial neighbors, beautiful buildings, great subways, excellent theater and dance, fine libraries and bookstores, wonderful restaurants, pleasant markets. There were problems but we worked them out amicably.
On 2 May 2018, Professor Peter Ridd was sacked by James Cook University for serious misconduct. It all started when he called-out his colleague Terry Hughes for falsely claiming healthy inshore coral reefs were dead from climate change and deteriorating water quality.
Als der Sturm der Empörung, den die sadistische Ermordung George Floyds weltweit auslöste, in der arabischen Welt ankam, war er ein sanftes Lüftchen. Es gab ein paar Wortmeldungen in den sozialen Netzwerken, einige Strassendemonstrationen, dann war Schluss.
Gewalt gegen Polizisten gehört fast schon zum guten Ton in der westlichen Gesellschaft. In Deutschland wirkten das Beispiel Joschka Fischer und der Aufstieg von Grünen und Teilen der SPD aus extremen linken Zusammenhängen als symbolische Etablierung.
The late 1960s were the heyday of modern American liberalism, which was then an ideology of hope. A bipartisan Congress passed landmark civil-rights legislation in 1964 and 1965. The precipitating event of the urban riots in 1968 was the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
The similarities between this week’s riots and the Los Angeles riots of 1992 are obvious. Both were occasioned by appalling video images, and both divided the nation along partisan and ideological lines. The differences between the two events, however, are more revealing.
Der Aufruhr über Polizeigewalt sei die Folge einer verzerrten Darstellung des Problems, sagt der schwarze «Nein-Sager» und Ökonom Glenn Loury. Er lenke mit der «leeren These vom Rassismus» den Blick von den wirklichen Problemen der schwarzen Amerikaner ab.
Leaked audio revealed Chicago aldermen and Mayor Lori Lightfoot melting down on Sunday over their inability to stop violence and looting in their city.
