The Tories collapsed in the United Kingdom and in France after a second round there was the unexpected surge of success for the left
Our public sphere is not well served by people flinging chunks of dogma around
The liberal right needs to understand that the DA did not win the election and that it has no mandate to unilaterally impose its socially destructive policies on society
We need to find new and better ways to talk about our society
As the liberal establishment and the kleptocratic nationalists in and outside of the ANC both see a moment of political possibility for themselves it is the left in the ANC that must now step up
As the world is ripped apart, the poems that sing the universal enable some respite
The students occupying universities across the US are leading a revolt from within the empire
The political project around Jacob Zuma is violent, predatory and socially toxic, but it does speak to real lines of exclusion that liberalism cannot address
Many if not most South Africans welcome the decline of electoral support for the ANC. But the alarming reality is that the alternatives could be far worse
The ANC’s decline is deserved. But the ruling party mirrors a society suffused with contempt for poverty and repairing that requires solidarity, not just punishing a grotesque political class at the polls