Mail & Guardian Africa\'s Best read Mail & Guardian Africa\'s Best read Mail & Guardian Africa\'s Best read Search Search Myths and dangers of the ‘great man theory’ for the ANC Mzwandile Masina 23 Ju...
06.23.2022 Mg.co.za and 1 sitesOPINION In the mid-1840s, a Scottish historian and philosopher, Thomas Carlyle, wrote essays and gave a series of lectures on heroism. The six lectures would later be compiled into an influential book...
06.22.2022 Ewn.co.za and 1 sitesMit Complimenten Aweissen (put him off with compliments) Arthur Lee, one of the American Commissioners stationed in Paris, was appointed minister to the Prussian Court of King Frederick the Great in t...
06.21.2022 Allthingsliberty.comOne hundred and seventy-six years ago today, on the evening of Monday, June 22, 1846, the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon—sixty years old and facing imminent financial ruin—locked himself in his studio...
06.22.2022 Theparisreview.orgThe relationship between socialism and liberalism is magnetic—sometimes pulling close, at others repelling, in a force field that marks not just the histories of political thought and partisan conflict but the personal trajectories of key protagonists of each. Proximity has not always rendered the relationship less fraught. Yet attempts to transcend the differences have never ceased. Visions of ‘market socialism’ are as old as industrial capitalism itself, as if the ‘dis-embedding’ of markets we...
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