Reason & Society

Continuing on this work by Christopher Caudwell : Scenes and Actions: Unpublished Manuscripts , selected, edited, and introduced by Jean ...

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

In addition to public figures and intellectuals by profession, the planet is dotted with independent scholars and autodidacts who persever...

Here is an email I wrote for a group several years ago, just retrieved: 10 February 2005 Imagination & logic, the shape of life ...

I have alternated posts on this topic on this blog and on my Studies in a Dying Culture blog.  The latest post on the latter blog is: Glo...

Thank goodness Barbara Ehrenreich has written about a subject that has been grinding my gears for several years, the self-help industry and ...

I need to source this quote from Feuerbach: Is it at all possible for the feeling man to resist feeling, for the loving man to resist lov...

I've blogged about Onfray on my Esperanto blog Ĝirafo several times, as I have on this one. Onfray is cited or mentioned from time to t...

I'm not sure when intellectual gimmickry first gained a foothold in the best seller lists and became a pop culture phenomenon. I think t...

For some years I have been reading philosophical histories written for a popular audience, some of which I've mentioned here, others on ...

My original entry on my Freethought Forum blog includes a number of responses. Written 27 December 2006: While I’ve been put off by the in...