We may never unravel the mysteries of this abject gesture. What matters now is what a second Trump term, with Rubio as ...

On Joseph Stiglitz.

The tension between natural law and history—the theme of this series of lecturesfootnote 1 —has come down to us, as so many other ideas, from the ancient Greeks. In a most famous passage of his ...

It is the flip side of the celebrity culture: prominent figures in various walks of life—entertainment, sports, big business, politics—bask in the adulation of the unwashed and inhabit a rarefied ...

‘Capitalism, by mightily furthering the development of the productive forces, and in virtue of its inherent contradictions, . . . provide(s) an excellent soil for the historical progress of society ...

It is not the purpose of this article to offer a detailed defence of Semenov, but rather to propose a similar ‘torch-relay’ theory of historical development. Historical materialism is an evolutionary ...

Why’, the young naif Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) asks in Blue Velvet, ‘is there so much trouble in this world?’ Three decades ...

The book is full of, one might almost say overflowing with, ideas and interpretations. There are many subsidiary themes which contribute to the main structure of the argument, and these cannot all be ...

Exponential curves such as these are wreaking havoc upon finite nature. Yet few on the radical left engage in a holistic ...

Although a long time coming, Trudeau’s fall has been dramatic. He was elected in 2015 promising ‘real change’ and ‘sunny ways ...

Among the stories Claessens loved to tell was one about the death of Pieter Bruegel the Elder who, according to Flemish ...