“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” —Martin Luther King Jr. “Stumbling is not falling.” —Malcolm X “In contrast to idealism, whose problem is how to explain ...

SIR JAMES JEANS'S recent book, “Physics and Philosophy”, has once more raised the question of the bearing of the 'new physics' upon the philosophical doctrines of metaphysical materialism and human ...

Class, Race and Corporate Power, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2018) (17 pages) In this essay I explain both why Karl Marx remains an important thinker and why he is in some respects inadequate. I focus on the ...

In later years, Trotsky commented that Lenin’s work was distinguished by the highest level of theoretical conscientiousness. This found particular expression in Lenin’s defense of Marxism against ...

Despite their many divergences, science and philosophy are both led forward by reality. This is inevitable if facts, concepts, axioms, and other mental models are to be reliable. There are two ongoing ...

If there is one thing that rankles Gary Hart, it`s the idea that the young have turned Republican. After all, the young were his kind of people, at least in the Democratic primaries. Now all the ...

Memoirist Akash Kapur was raised in an intentional community in India, then moved to the U.S. at age 16. He's seen the idealism of people trying to remake human society and renounce materialism. He's ...

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