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War, Revolution, And Ambition – OpEd

There are several wars happening in the world at present – those in the Middle East, the one in Ukraine,

14.12.2024 6

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The Philosophy Of Provisionality – OpEd

Everything we do as humans is provisional. Because of time’s eroding power, everything is revisable. There is a reason for the word ‘decision’...

06.12.2024 7

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Gattaca’s Warning Against Vaccine Passports – OpEd

Gattaca , the 1997 dystopian science fiction film by Andrew Niccol, was prescient. It anticipated the inauguration of a newly class-stratified society...

20.11.2024 10

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Complex Systems And The US Election – OpEd

With the US presidential election mere days away, American citizens first and foremost – but also people in other countries, given what is at stake...

06.11.2024 3

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Dissent: Gaps In The Regime – OpEd

At certain times in history, sometimes protracted events have occurred that demonstrated the power of dissent – that (as far as we

29.10.2024 3

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Considerations On Civil Disobedience – OpEd

In his essay,  Civil Disobedience  (published in 1849, p. 29), Henry David Thoreau writes:  The authority of government, even such as I am...

17.10.2024 4

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Schopenhauer: Humanity’s Fall To Irrationality – OpEd

In the third section of The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music (1872) Friedrich Nietzsche quotes the ancient...

10.10.2024 5

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Washing Machines Are Good, Actually – OpEd

By Diogo Costa In recent social media posts, some advocates of “degrowth” have suggested a return to washing clothes by hand as a solution to...

01.10.2024 6

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Political Renewal, Intellectual Revival – OpEd

It is undeniable that we stand at a historical juncture where something new is in the process of being born – preferably not W.B. Yeats’s ‘rough...

01.10.2024 6

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Dungeons And Dragons Archetypes Come To Life – OpEd

When confronted by an enemy, and you wish to prevail over him or her, it is imperative to know them. And the more powerful this enemy is, the more...

18.09.2024 5

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Entertainment Weaponized – OpEd

One of the most widely used means the tyrannical globalists employ, to lull the populace into a state of anaesthesia as far as the goings-on behind...

07.09.2024 4

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History, Technology, And A Balanced Attitude – OpEd

The current generation stands before a gigantic irony of history – at least if human history is considered, as it has been since the 19th century,...

31.07.2024 5

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Why Denial Persists – OpEd

We recently returned from a conference in Lisbon, Portugal, where we spent several days after the event’s conclusion exploring this beautiful city...

26.07.2024 5

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Deference To Joe Biden From Bernie Sanders Has Become Nonsensical – OpEd

By Norman Solomon* I love Bernie Sanders. By most measures, he’s the greatest senator in the last 50 years. I was very glad to be a Sanders delegate...

09.07.2024 4

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Do People Want Precious Freedom? – OpEd

That most perspicacious of social theorists, Zymunt Bauman – on whose work I have drawn before (see for example here) – has raised a question...

09.07.2024 5

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Savage Reservations – OpEd

Because we have a need to understand the world around us – some more than others – most people, myself included, tend to look to George...

02.07.2024 4

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A View Of Kant From The East – OpEd

My wife and I are in Kaliningrad, Russia – in what the Russians call ‘Little Russia’ as opposed to ‘Big Russia’

18.05.2024 20

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Ancient Political Advice For Today’s Rulers – OpEd

It is probably the case that politicians who are encouraged to read the works of the ancient Greek thinker, Plato – particularly  The  Republic...

03.05.2024 20

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