Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] dodgy balloting put George W. in the White House in 2000, leading many to cry ‘foul!’ As the Financial Times recently observed, the prospect of a Bush/ Clinton race in next year’s presidential will mean that two families have effectively run the USA for just under 40 years (including George Bush Snr’s vice-presidency and […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] remotely justified by the by material he has presented. If you read nothing else mentioned in these columns, read this. The Atlantic semantic71 The exchanges between President Clinton and Tony Blair,72 much trumpeted by the major media, contain almost nothing of interest because most of what Blair said has been redacted. But there was […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 Superstition and farce: the survival of the Inquisition in American political culture Dr. T. P. Wilkinson Consider C. Wright Mills, probably the first American scholar to bother tracking the elites in the US and to theorise about decision-making outside the formal legitimising rituals of elections etc. His 1956 book the Power Elite […]