How accurate is this claim of Joseph Stalin’s? It is from 1924, still early in the Soviet Union’s dictatorship-of-the-proletariat stage of communism. Lenin had died in January, and this Stalin speech was published in September: Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organisation that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing […]

I’m happy to be invited to speak in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on freedom of expression. The Fórum da Liberdade typically has 5,000 in-person attendees and 250,000 online around the world. Here’s the event website: https://www.forumdaliberdade.com.br/ I will also be in São Paulo working with my publisher to promote the Brazilian Portuguese edition of my Explaining

In his biography of Michel Foucault, James Miller notes this important Kantian element in Marx: “Although the Cartesian sense of subjectivist coincided with individual consciousness and the cogito, in German philosophy after Kant the term came to connote a universal faculty (in Kant, the transcendental ego as the condition of the unity of empirical perception).

Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. What is the significance of art? Why is it so powerful? Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in our lives, we each ask ourselves the big questions. How

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From an interview with Clint Eastwood: Interviewer: ‘How old are you, Clint?’ Clint: ‘I turn 91 on Monday.’Interviewer: ‘What are you going to do?’ Clint: ‘I am going to start a new movie.’Interviewer: ‘What keeps you going?’ Clint: ‘I get up every day and don’t let the old man in.”

In Bhopal, India, in 1984 chemicals spilled out of an industrial plant, killing and damaging tens of thousands of people. The long-term death toll is about 16,000 people, making it the worst human-caused environmental disaster in history. It’s important to understand why that happened. In the high-tech society we strive to be, it is essential