Important events in our universe
JP O'Malley speaks to the economist Sir Tony Atkinson at Harvard University Press in London, to talk about why the current UK government is actually increasing inequality by slashing welfare, why a global tax might work more efficiently than a national tax rate, and why he remains optimistic that inequality can still be reduced in the coming years ahead
In spite of a gradually accelerating reappraisal, a full portrait of composer Julius Eastman will most likely never surface, says Aimee Armstrong. Instead we’re left to track him through anecdotes, odd photographs and his politically charged and aggressively honest personal composition. A preview for this year's Intonal Festival.
Almost 20 years after they formed, Every Time I Die are performing a victory lap. From the chaos of the moshpit, Dan Franklin finds their primal aggression is actually a conduit for more complex messages about the problems of masculinity and the power of love.