Of all the political events of this past Tuesday, that which interested me the most was a 6-5 decision by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to allow Home Depot to proceed with its plans to open a store in the Bayview/Hunter’s Point neighbourhood.

The more I read, the more uneasy theory makes me. Abstraction tends to obscure individuality, which tends not only to mask over the most interesting aspects of human behaviour, but also to dehumanise subjects, allowing many kinds of oppression and violence. Thus, a post-modern philosophical blog like Long Sunday tends to make me a little [...]

Thousands of miles away, it’s hard to figure out what’s really going on.

The Botswana High Court ruled on Friday 28 October that the government must allow Bushman Amogolang Segootsane and his family to return to their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.