Imperialism
Russia
Ukraine
Wagner mutiny
Fig. 1. Yevgeny Prigozhin. Screen capture from video by УлПравда ТВ, June 13, 2023, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.
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It’s one thing to kill a man. It’s quite another to change the views of those who admired him. The good news for Vladimir Putin is that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s appeal seems limited to a relatively small number of hardliners.[1] The bad news for Putin is that that means a split in support for the Ukraine war.
Robyn Dixon, “Wagner chief Prigozhin’s lingering popularity a challenge for Putin,” Washington Post, August 27, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/27/yevgeniy-prigozhin-wagner-support-russia/
Lyric Li and Annabelle Timsit, “Russian investigators confirm Prigozhin dead in plane crash,” Washington Post, August 27, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/27/russia-ukraine-war-news/
Neoliberalism
Banking
Commercial real estate
Fig. 1. “The iconic Crescent stands as recognizable landmark in the upscale neighborhood of Uptown, Dallas.” Photograph by Dallasedits [pseud.], July 5, 2016, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mark Belko, “Pittsburgh is not alone when it comes to empty office space. But what will it take to bridge the gap?” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 27, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/business/development/2023/08/27/downtown-pittsburgh-office-vacancy-sublease-san-francisco/stories/202308270082
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Mills
Ciara McEneany and Neena Hagen, “‘Ghost town’: Pittsburgh Mills mall suffers like many others, some with the same landlord,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 27, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/business/money/2023/08/27/pittsburgh-mills-landlord-namdar-frazer-township/stories/202308220093
Housekeeping
I have, at very long last, finished David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything[2] and resumed work on my own book.
- [1]Robyn Dixon, “Wagner chief Prigozhin’s lingering popularity a challenge for Putin,” Washington Post, August 27, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/27/yevgeniy-prigozhin-wagner-support-russia/↩
- [2]David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2021).↩