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The Wilder Shores of Marx visits five countries which still labor under systems inspired by the writings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and other luminaries of the left.The most decis… Read More
Sublime Object (1989)In this first work, Zizek establishes himself as a Lacanian analyst of contemporary ideology, in conjunction with a return to Hegel. Zizek’s treatment of Marx is m… Read More
I was very excited about this volume, since it seems to take the Radical Orthodoxy in the direction I find most interesting, and because it has such a impressive list of writers from outside… Read More
Brave New World is a classic - a dystopian novel similar in theme to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. As Nineteen Eighty-Four is my favourite book of all time I decided to look further… Read More
Et oui, la grenouille n'est pas qu'un estomac. Il lui arrive aussi de nourrir son cerveau (petit, certes, mais costaud). Elle fait d'ailleurs partie d'un petit groupe, a… Read More
Places to go for ideas of what to read: Book Spot - lots of links and suggestions: http://www.bookspot.com/BookZen - a blog with a lot of blog-links and stuff: http://bookzen.blogspot.com/Co… Read More
For a few of my pointie headed friends, here is a theological review of Black Liberation Theology. This is the Jeremiah Wright religion and the theological background for Barack Obama . … Read More
A Night at the Opera is the fourth studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 21 November 1975. Co-produced by Roy Thomas Baker and Queen, it was the most expensive album… Read More
Adam Gopnik first reviewed Citizen Clem for the New Yorker.
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The Value Composite 2 (VC2) is a positioning framework that is computed by utilizing the cost to book esteem, cost to deals, EBITDA to EV, cost to income, cost to profit and investor yield… Read More
Not long ago I was removed from an evangelical FACEBOOK page because of a comment I made to a prominent pastor who was in the same group. I stated that his view on the subject we… Read More
Here's a still from Losey's The Damned, a rather rare cold-war SF-y film to see, at least up to now, from 1962.I remember where I first saw this shot, published I think in John Baxter's 1970… Read More
Peter Harrison’s book The Freedom of Things: An Ethnology of Control is a challenging education in the anthropology of political organisation — from the nature of pre-state… Read More
My science-fictional reading from the first few months of 2018:China Mountain Zhangby Maureen McHughIt’s the 22nd century and China is the world’s economic, military and cultural… Read More
PART ONE: “BOOK OF LIFE”“THE DAY IS COMING UP SO SOON, WHEN THERE SHALL BE THE FALLING OF ALL CAPITALISTS, WHEN I AND I PEOPLE SHALL GO HOME AND VANQUISH POPE P… Read More
A collection of over 180 letters by Hunter S. Thompson recently went up for auction in Los Angeles but failed to meet the reserve of $110,000.
Nate D. Sanders Auctions posted a detailed brea… Read More
U.S. Recession No Longer Improbable: No Longer Fresh at Project Syndicate: For the first time in nine years, Americans and investors in America need to be prepared for not a probable but r… Read More
Weekend Reading: Why Is William L. Shirer's (1960) "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" Still the Best Book to Read About Nazi Germany?
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Committed: Civil Rights and the Struggle for JusticeValerie Sweeney PrinceCivil rights were first constitutionalized in the 13th Amendment. However, the fact of civil rights as a… Read More
Weekend Reading: Lara Putnam and Gabriel Perez-Putnam: What Dollar Stores Tell Us About Electoral Politics
John Quiggin: Monopoly: Too Big to Ignore: "Two hundred years after the birth of… Read More
Note to Self: Comment on Richard Baldwin: The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work: We can worry along either of two dimensions... another wave of globalizat… Read More
J.T. Whitehead has Bachelors’ degrees from Wabash College in English & Philosophy. He received a Master’s degree in Philosophy from Purdue, where he studied Existentialism, p… Read More
The ε-Stigler and the Other Components of Stigler: On George Stigler's 1962 Denunciation of the "Insolence" of Demonstrating Negroes, and Other Topics
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Robert Heilbroner (1996): The Embarrassment of Economics: Schumpeter arrived in his famous riding habit and great cloak, of which he divested himself in a grand gesture. He greeted us in a… Read More
I have been a fan of his since I was a snot-nosed kid, and his words have been a driving force and influence on my life. If you have read his work before, you know the joys that you are in f… Read More
What Is the Federal Reserve Thinking Right Now?: We have no warrant for believing that our models are more knowledgeable right now than the market. And there is pronounced asymmetry here:… Read More
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Why am I hearing "very fine people on both sides!"? here: Robert Knight: Letters · LRB: Globalists: "Alexander Zevin writes that Friedrich Hayek opposed the use… Read More
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Looking forward to the next recession, and to the unwillingness of politicians to reserve fiscal space for fighting it, makes Keynes message more urgent than ever: Paul… Read More
Knowledge system and cognitive science guru Andy Matuschak writes a rant called Why Books Don’t Work https://andymatuschak.org/books/, about big, difficult books that take him six to… Read More
The title of Soc Sci 2 is: "Western Thought and Institutions": Irwin Collier: Harvard. Syllabus and assigned readings for interdisciplinary course, Social Sciences 2, 1970-71 http://www.irwi… Read More
The steadily growing divide between rich and poor isn’t a new phenomenon, or else Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels would never have had reason to write the Communist Manifest and the blo… Read More
Why should Reading Animal Farm By George Orwell - A Novella Of Didactic Language And Political IdeologyBooks Review 360Animal Farm, a showstopper novella by George Orwell was written in 1945… Read More
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Required Readings Note:
The required readings for Module 11 are rather long—but not nearly as long as for Modules 9 & 5, where I wound up taking two weeks per module.
There is Sk… Read More
2020 Top-10 Book Review: Guest Post by Ajit Singh
Every year, Konversai advisory board member and passionate bibliophile Ajit Singh writes a review of his top 10 books of the year. Genres fe… Read More
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OctoberIn October 1603, the Sangley Rebellion broke out in the Philippines, causing thousands of Chinese deaths. Earlier, it was reported in 1602 that three mandarins (scholar-officials) wit… Read More
To achieve the previous villa restaurant the place we’re to have lunch, my visitor takes me alongside a seashore fringing her childhood hometown. It’s a gorgeous stretch of Al… Read More
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A Venn Diagram will be used to explore the similarities and differences between expectations of men and women in the workplace. This diagram will serve as… Read More
Concise Encyclopedia of Preaching
Editors: William H. Willimon & Richard Lischer
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, hardcover, 518 pages, including Preface, Contribu… Read More
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40 books you should definitely read once and why?
Reading is an incredibly rewarding activity that can expand your knowledge, enhance your imagination, and help you s… Read More
Watched: The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, The Impossible Years, One of Our Spies is Missing, and The Private War of Major BensonTHE GIRL IN THE RED VELVET SWING (1955) --- I learned from IM… Read More
Woody Allen’s career in comedy began in 1953 when he left college to write jokes for Garry Moore and Sid Caesar. In the early 1960s his stand-up routines in the comedy clubs of Green… Read More
DeepAI’s AI image generator’s response to the prompt ‘AI taking over the world’.
Deep within the series of notebooks that make up his Foundations of a Critique of… Read More
2023 was the hottest year on record, but we're still not doing enough to fight climate change. Michael Roberts writes that our present economic system is dragging the planet over the c… Read More
On the 26th of September 1905, Jeanne Clémence Weil, mother of writer Marcel Proust, died in Ile de France, Paris. Madame Proust, as she was to be known, seeing as Marcel never got ma… Read More
Review of On Freedom by Timothy Snyder: A Timely Exploration of Liberty and Democracy
On Freedom by Timothy Snyder delves into one of the most pressing issues of our timeâ€&rdq… Read More