During my short stay in Abu-Dhabi I was fortunate to visit a huge1 , outrageous, and rather beautiful (in its excess), building. It is the Qasr al Watan, UAE’s presidential palace, reserved for official functions: it is a working palace, completed in 2017. After being driven across acres of lawn – itself an indulgence inContinue reading “Trump’s is smaller”
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Academic travel to the US – not for me
I have decided, with regret, to pull out of the 7th Global Conference of Economic Geography in Worcester (MA). It is a pointless gesture in the wider scheme of things, but one I can make. It is prompted by the Trump regime’s economic attack on Canada, his disdain for treaties, his utter contempt for humanContinue reading “Academic travel to the US – not for me”
Trump is a mirror to our values
Donald Trump’s dismantling of administration, legal authority, and common decency are the logical end-game of a system of ideas, introduced in the 1940s by Hayek, Friedman and others of the early Mont-Pelerin society, that have become the common-sense baseline for most social interactions today: market-driven, property-oriented, and transactional. Trump is terrifying not because he isContinue reading “Trump is a mirror to our values”
Richard Shearmur 