December 11, 2013 12:00 am
Published by Thomas Riggins
Thomas Riggins reviews an article by Alberto Alesina from the Harvard Economics Department - Women, Fertility and the Rise of Modern Capitalism
November 24, 2013 12:00 am
Published by Thomas Riggins
Thomas Riggins continues to lead us through Chapter 3 of Lenin's book Materialism and Empiro-criticism
November 5, 2013 12:00 am
Published by Thomas Riggins
Sartre once remarked that the attempt to construct a philosophy that goes beyond Marxism simply recreates a pre-Marxist view that is no longer relevant to current understanding
October 25, 2013 12:00 am
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The election for mayor of New York City is less that a month away and Bill de Blasio's lead in the polls appears insurmountable
October 13, 2013 12:00 am
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Thomas Riggins explores Lenin's take on the theory of knowledge of dialectical materialism and of empirio-criticism
October 3, 2013 12:00 am
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According to a recent article in the New York Times two of the candidates running for mayor of New York have become alarmed about the worldview of Bill de Blasio, the front running candidate of the Democratic Party
September 18, 2013 12:00 am
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Thomas Riggins analyses Chapter 3 of Lenin's Materialism and Empiro-criticism
September 15, 2013 12:00 am
Published by Thomas Riggins
Meliorism "is the view that the world is neither completely good nor completely bad, and that incremental progress or regress depend on human actions." This view holds that "By creative intelligence and education we can improve the environment and social conditions."
August 19, 2013 3:10 am
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How should one respond to the claim that Islamists such as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt are "Marx's contemporary successors"?
July 30, 2013 10:48 pm
Published by Thomas Riggins
Recently Simon Blackburn, the well known British philosopher, reviewed "Knowing Right from Wrong," the new book by Kieran Setiya, in the TLS