Reason & Society

‘Are the underground men in the works of Wright and Ellison given the same psychological dimensions as those Dostoevsky achieves for his...

What would I have thought of Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s 1976 novel Slapstick had I read it when it came out? I had read his 1973 novel Breakfast ...

The sphere of psychology, in which such projects take up residence, though with little success, is not exempt from the crisis of lit...

I shall have a lot more to say, plus add additional references. First, let me link to pages on my web site that engage Dostoevsky: Georg L...

I have finished Part 2 of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground (1864), and so I have read the entire novel. I completely disag...

This installment is part 3 of Trotsky vs Dostoevsky, a unit of the larger project of analyzing the ideological structure of Dostoevsky...

Where all good things come from divine goodness , all evil must necessarily stem from diabolical malice. The two notions are inseparable....

Thus, because religion rules over life and death, heaven and hell, because it transforms laws into the commandments of an all-powerful b...

THE OBSERVATION that intelligence in certain spheres of life can exist side by side with the most unintelligent superstition, political f...

What then has faith in common with love, religion with ethics? Nothing; they have no more in common than have the God to whom man is bound ...