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Social Democracy, Immigration and the Working Class

Ahmari grapples with Sunkara’s argument that social democracy lost worker support by prioritizing capital interests…

Krishnamurti: One Has to be an Outsider to Society

“There is no leader, there is no teacher, there is nobody to tell you what to do. You are alone in this mad brutal world.”

Pity the Nation: Two Poems

Shared by Serene Elhashimi  on Facebook: In 2007, Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote the poem “Pity the…

Thursday Poem: The Devil’s Whisper

Whispers in darkness, soft and coldLures the innocent, young and oldA skeleton’s grasp, a cigarette’s…

What Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks Can Teach Us About Creativity

by Tracy Caldor in Cupoty Newsletter: Back in the 1980s I borrowed a Fighting Fantasy…

Genome of Neanderthal Fossil Reveals Lost Tribe Cut Off For Millennia

Alison George in New Scientist: Genetic analysis of a Neanderthal fossil found in France reveals…

Thursday Poem: In Reply

Tell me, Rock, do you thinkmy mother misses feeling gravity’s sly tugas she lifted her…

Whispers of the Dragon

by Eleni Petrakou at 3 Quarks Daily: During this Chinese New Year celebrations, this columnist…

Thursday Poem: The Way of Art

It seems to me that,paralleling the paths of action, devotion, etc.,there is a path called…

Wednesday Poem: What We Leave Behind

My father drank salt water mixed with airAnd sacrificed his legs and calloused hands at…

Why Plato Was Drawn to the Eleusinian Mysteries

For Plato, rationalists and mystics can walk the same path. He turns to the Eleusinian Mysteries to explain his ideas about knowledge.

How Renaissance Art Found Its Way to American Museums

The Consummation of Empire, and The Andes of Ecuador are all considered examples of great American art, but there was little appreciation…