ALEX HALL welcomes an analysis of how modern capitalism is deeply intertwined with emotions, and their manipulation
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When Johann Sebastian Bach stood up to Mammon
Bach’s Debt Cantata demands that you listen not to the financiers and politicians, but to your conscience, writes DAVID YEARSLEY
Johann Sebastian Bach
MARTIN GRAHAM welcomes a statistical analysis of how much tax the super-rich pay, and foresees that the demand will flush out their agents
RICHARD WORTH relishes the fleeting moment and sense of flow of the late, great saxophonist
DENNIS BROE notes the thin, unfunny and apolitical quality of the gruel dished up by the US networks and studios for mass consumption
BARBARA BOSWELL remembers South African poet, storyteller, publisher, editor and activist Diana Ferrus (1953-2026)
HELEN VASSALLO recommends a gripping Argentinian crime story about gender violence and the weaponisation of religion
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THE Congressional Budget Office reported recently that the federal debt will overtake GDP by next year and will double to more than $33 trillion by 2030.
Debt and sin are synonymous in Christian thought and liturgy: “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors” runs the Lord’s Prayer as recited by Presbyterians.
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