Reason & Society

I have blogged about the Yugoslav Marxist Humanist Praxis philosophers and documented their work on my web site: Yugoslav Praxis Philosop...

As I do not regularly follow the blogosphere, I missed out on this article, which I was informed of only last week: Counterpunched: We Hav...

Here is a 4-minute video by philosopher and social theorist Nina Power : Radical thinkers: Ludwig Feuerbach on religion - video This i...

Written April 2, 2011 at 7:52 pm  Here's a telling clue: Since Julius W. Pratt published his   Expansionists of 1898   in 1936, it ...

WHY I AM NO LONGER A SKEPTIC by Stephen Bond, Stephensplatz blog, 28 Aug 2011 While I share the impetus toward derision of the skeptics m...

In my previous post, I mentioned this book: The Future of Society: A Critique of Modern Bourgeois Philosophical and Socio-political Concep...

Imaginings about the future, whether driven by technological projection, science fiction, or questions of political and social organization,...

This is old stuff, but here's the info. I could quibble over some details, but there are important criticisms here of the political and ...

I snapped this photo in early April 2011 across the street from the Southeast branch of the Washington DC library. It perfectly illustrates...

 Listen to my podcast on this subject: Dumain, Ralph. “ Theorizing Social Paranoia ,” 22 May 2011, 58 min., an episode of " Studie...

Theorizing Social Paranoia: A Précis for Discussion By Ralph Dumain “Fascism has awakened a sleeping world to the realities of the irration...

While I'm trying to remember just why I can't stand Rodney Stark, let me call your attention to this article: Stark, Rodney. ...

There are certain foci of social and historical investigation, which, when plumbed to their depths, unravel the entire weave of the modern w...

This looks more promising than the fare offered by Richard Dawkins and E. O. Wilson: Richerson, Peter J.; Boyd, Robert. Not by Genes Alone...

Gellner, Ernst. " Notes towards a Theory of Ideology ," L'Homme , tome 18 n°3-4 (juil.-dec. 1978), pp. 69-82. You may have t...

I can't believe I forgot to blog on this priceless specimen of pseudoscientific obscurantism. The following, constructed from old e-mail...

Written 19 January 2009 Johnson, Clarence Shole. Book review: Rosemary Cowan (2003), Cornel West: The Politics of Redemption , APA Newslett...

So far on this blog I concentrated my criticism of Sam Harris on his op-ed piece "Head-in-the-Sand Liberals". While he is eloquent...

Written 11 April 2007 (now edited): Someone recommended these texts as introductions to the relationship between Humanism and Socialism: Pau...