Malegapuru Makgoba writes that ”a sector of white males have an adaptation problem”. So what? Who cares? Apart from the assorted monkeys themselves, nobody. Maybe baboons are a nuisance if you share quarters with them, but they are not ”a major obstacle to our democratic transformation”. In the greater scheme of things, they don’t matter. Something else does, writes Jo Lorentzen.

”In her address to the World Social Forum in India earlier this year, Arundhati Roy picked a few bones with the world’s only superpower. She is in good company. But in her polemic Roy links the US to every evil under the sun and ends her tour de force of the human condition in the current world order on a chilling note.” Jo Lorentzen and Imraan Valodia respond.