As students rise up across the U. S. , Said’s words resonate as a scathing condemnation of the hypocrisy and corruption of liberal institutions, writes Seraj Assi. By Seraj Assi Common Dreams S tudent...
04.21.2024 Commondreams.org and 1 sitesLoading. . . Loading. . . Real estate has long been a cornerstone of wealth generation, and as 19th-century British philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill once said, “Landlords grow rich in their ...
04.25.2024 Benzinga.com and 1 sitesIn the early days of the COVID -19 pandemic, when there was no vaccine in sight and more than a thousand people who had contracted the virus were dying each day in the United States, Joseph Stiglitz, ...
04.25.2024 Newyorker.comDemocracies have always had a knowledge problem, or at least an ignorance problem. Elites in ancient Athens complained about the ignorance of the hoi polloi, which means “the many”, and wondered wheth...
04.26.2024 Scroll.in$1 Rush Lamp and Candle Holder invert reproduction (1979) | National Postal Museum Collection / Smithsonian Museum Can liberalism still be saved? In a climate of war, rampant militarization, and a politically prescribed defense of freedom, the once-thought-dead worldview of Cold War liberalism is making a comeback. In his book Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Liberals and the Making of Our Times (Yale University Press, 2023), Samuel Moyn explores the intellectual genesis of this (historically...
04.24.2024 Publicseminar.orgI will be at the Academy’s impressive studio in Miami to record a new eight-lecture course on the philosophy of ethics. Here is the invitation to join the live studio audience . We will cover thinkers...
04.20.2024 Stephenhicks.orgWhy did he do it? Hadi Matar, 24 — dim, lugubrious, incel-y — had by his own admission “read, like, two pages” of The Satanic Verses. Judging by his slacker patter, one wonders whether he fully unders...
04.22.2024 Unherd.comEditorial board Books April 24, 2024 On Friday 10 May, at 6. 00 pm, at La Feltrinelli Libri e Musica (Via S. Caterina, 23, Naples), there will be the presentation of Sergio Locoratolo’s volume entitle...
04.24.2024 News.italy24.pressSwami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), was born Narendranath Datta, in a traditional Kayastha Bengali family in Calcutta. He was one of seven siblings (three brothers and four sisters). Hi...
04.21.2024 Hindupost.in“The dramatic episode that clarified the difference between classical political economy and Darwin’s biology began on June 18, 1877, with the trial of two prominent neo-Malthusians, Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant, for the crime of publishing an ‘...
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