Phoebe Braithwaite

Dec 21, 2024 | nybooks.com | C.L.R. James |Stuart Hall |Phoebe Braithwaite

In May 1976, the Jamaican-born cultural theorist Stuart Hall sat down in the BBC’s studios in West London to interview the Trinidadian-born intellectual C.L.R. James. They were being filmed by Mike Dibb, who had produced John Berger’s Ways of Seeing four years earlier, for a planned BBC Two broadcast commemorating James’s seventy-fifth birthday. Hall was forty-four. The conversation was a torch-passing of sorts, from one West Indian intellectual who made his name in Britain to another.

Mar 23, 2023 | dissentmagazine.org | Richard D. Kahlenberg |Charles Taylor |Phoebe Braithwaite |Peter Mandler

A New Path to Diversity The Supreme Court is poised to overturn race-based affirmative action. But preferences based on socioeconomic disadvantage—which are both politically popular and legally sound—could produce similarly high levels of diversity. Richard D.

Mar 15, 2023 | thebaffler.com | Phoebe Braithwaite

The Horror Show! A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain. Somerset House, London, October 27, 2022–February 19, 2023. “It was meant to be great but it’s horrible,” reads a flyer headed “Confessions: S. Claus” in scribbled capitals. It’s lights out on Oxford Street this year. No more midnight neon. No more conspicuous glitter for compulsive sightseers to gawp at the wonders of capitalism. Even the affluent society can no longer keep up with its electricity bill. . . .