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Question time | Perspective Media International

Nov 13, 2024 | perspectivemedia.com | Peter Lawlor |Toby Green

A little while ago, I was invited to a small private dinner at a well-known academic institution in London. During the course of the evening, a prominent political journalist said: “The problem democracy faces is finding ways to make the working classes like better things.” I often hear variations on this theme and it’s worth identifying the presuppositions behind it.
The disappearance of Abdullah Öcalan

Nov 12, 2024 | perspectivemedia.com | Toby Green

On 15 February 1999 Abdullah Öcalan was abducted in Nairobi, Kenya. Öcalan was leader of the PKK, the leftist Kurdish guerrilla movement which had initiated an armed struggle against the Turkish government in 1984 in its quest for self-determination for Kurdistan, which spreads across Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran. Between then and 2012, over 20,000 PKK fighters were killed in the war.
Choose Your Collective Personhoods

May 28, 2024 | sublationmedia.com | Crispin Sartwell |Toby Green |Thomas White |Salvador Ramirez

A plausible way to sort political positions into a set of coherent categories is by asking whether they recognize collective agents, and if so, which. Do they treat individual people, by which I mean the sort of persons associated with each individual body, as parts of larger collective personhoods? Since around 1800 in Europe (though more like 1860 in the US) the most basic and effective political tendencies have been, we might say, anti-individualist.
Toby’s Banana Snax

Apr 12, 2024 | thehillnews.org | Toby Green |Nora Kenyon |Emma Polumbo

Share Hello, this is Toby Green ’25! This recipe appeared to me in a dream. I don’t remember the context of the dream, but I woke up with the idea burned into the inside of my eyelids and a crazy hankering for bananas. When I was able to make my dream a reality, it worked better than I expected.
Toby Green, Author at THE HILL NEWS

Apr 12, 2024 | thehillnews.org | Toby Green

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Modelling our Scientific Crisis

Apr 4, 2024 | cafeamericainmag.com | Toby Green

In his short 2016 book What is Real?, Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben discussed the life and work of the Italian physicist Ettore Majorana, who disappeared mysteriously in March 1938. A brilliant 31-year-old researcher, and chair of theoretical physics at Naples University, Majorana boarded a ship to Palermo on the night of March 25, 1938, and was never seen again. Various theories on his disappearance emerged: suicide, seclusion in a monastery, or flight to Argentina.
The False Prophets who doomed Nigeria. By Toby Green

Mar 14, 2024 | usafricaonline.com | Toby Green |Chido Nwangwu

Toby Green is a Professor of History at King’s College, London. Green has worked as a writer and editor. He studied for his PhD at the Centre of West African Studies at Birmingham University. The updated edition of his book, The Covid Consensus, co-authored with Thomas Fazi, is published by Hurst. Five years ago, economists prophesied a prosperous future for Nigeria, and the rest of the continent.
The false prophets who doomed Nigeria

Mar 13, 2024 | unherd.com | Toby Green

AfricalockdownNigeriaPandemicrowSociety Five years ago, economists prophesied a prosperous future for Nigeria, and the rest of the continent.
A calamity of lost youth

Feb 21, 2024 | perspectivemag.co.uk | Toby Green |Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

Ever since the World Health Organisation declared the Covid-19 pandemic over in May last year, the world has moved on. Yet people continue to die in much higher numbers than before 2020. And while covid mortality mainly impacted older people, it is younger people who are now dying disproportionately. The news cycle hasn’t said much about this, even though, of course, these unexpected deaths are no less tragic than those of the pandemic. Why the silence?
Africa needs an inquiry into Covid-19 mistakes

Jan 29, 2024 | trtafrika.com | Toby Green

By Toby GreenIt has been four years since the WHO declared Covid-19 as an epidemic outbreak of international concern. The end of January also marks four years since the African continent first began taking measures against the novel coronavirus: Rwanda closed borders to flights from China on January 31st 2020.