Some Thoughts on Lockdown Protests
In several countries, lockdowns and/or other pandemic-related measures have provoked protest or even riots, and in many more, policies intended to slow down the spread of Covid-19 are widely ignored.…
In several countries, lockdowns and/or other pandemic-related measures have provoked protest or even riots, and in many more, policies intended to slow down the spread of Covid-19 are widely ignored.…
(This is part 4 in the No Time for Utopia series.) In the previous two episodes in this series I argued that there are two possible futures for mankind and…
Most political thought is βideal theoryβ: its arguments are based on an idealized world in which important aspects of reality are abstracted away. Abstraction isnβt necessarily a bad thing β…
(This is part 4 in the βCrisis and Inertiaβ series.) While climate change constitutes a major if not terminal crisis for civilization (and possibly even for mankind) and certain technologies…
This is a lightly edited excerpt from my book/pamphlet The Hegemony of Psychopathy. * * * Hegemony is the spread of ideas (such as values and beliefs) that support and…
This is a lightly edited excerpt from my book/pamphlet The Hegemony of Psychopathy. * * * The reorientation of political ambitions after the Second World War from power and territory…
This is an edited collection of excerpts from my book/pamphlet The Hegemony of Psychopathy. * * * The Holocaust has received surprisingly little attention from social and political philosophers. This…
Question: Why canβt Greece repay its debts? Answer: Because its economy is in shambles. Question: Why is its economy so bad? Answer: Because the EU destroyed it. Thatβs the short…