Karl Marx
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Chartreuse and Economic Theology July 03, 2023
Apparently, the Carthusian monks who distil the herbal liqueur Chartreuse have been struggling to maintain a work-life balance. Sales of the drink, which totalled $30 million in 2022, continue to bankroll the order. The brothers’ vows of solitude and...
The Marx Whisperer July 03, 2023
he Shanghai Expo of 2010 was, along with the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the event that showcased China to the world. Sprawling across a former industrial site on the Huangpu river, it was linked by new metro lines and flyovers, flanked by scores of new h...
Ian Penman's Fassbinder is a Love Letter to Counterculture May 16, 2023
One day in the mid-’70s on an air force base in “flattest, dullest” Norfolk, England, an African-American airmen shared some of his deep Southern blues records with a young, white English boy named Ian Penman. The meeting was more or less random, occ...
The Romantic Resurrection May 04, 2023
Critics in the mid-19th century warned that photography would kill art. Cultural commentator and poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) cautioned that “If photography is allowed to deputize for art in some of art’s activities, it will not be long before...
Commie Chic Invades American Grade Schools May 02, 2023
Every day, my son, who is in seventh grade, sees a quotation from Angela Davis painted on his school’s wall: “Radical simply means grasping things at the root.” (The line actually comes from Karl Marx.) Four years ago, during Black History Month, a p...
Wielding Weighty Words to Salvage the World May 01, 2023
Not unlike a prime Bordeaux, this collection of essays, originally published in hardcover in June 2012, has suffered not at all from the passage of time. Betraying none of the customary unevenness of assembled writings, the twenty-one pieces composin...
Specific Idiocy February 20, 2023
Of Karl Marx it might be said, to adapt slightly Rossini’s bon mot about Wagner, that he has his good lines but his bad pages. His good lines are inscribed forever on every reader’s mind, though whether there would have been many such readers had the...
The Destruction of American Social Cohesion February 17, 2023
The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics is Dividing the Land of the Free is a profoundly thoughtful and knowledgeable book highly relevant to the condition of America today. It reflects the extraordinary commitment of an author who cares de...
Opium of the Elite: Hayek in England February 09, 2023
We socialists like to hark back to better days, when ideals shone bright and principles stood tall: equality, fairness, democracy, internationalism, mutuality, jobs, education, food, housing, medicine, pensions, peace, friendship and love. But there...
How to Read 'The Communist Manifesto' January 20, 2023
Because The Communist Manifesto has been so traduced and so feared, many people who haven’t yet read it think Marx’s polemic was either an instruction manual for overthrowing the government (Step 1, raid the police stations. Step 2, seize the post of...
