“Marx’s failed theories can be propped up by reframing them with the help of non-Marxist ideas, by downplaying their distinctively Marxist tone, by modifying them to better fit new data or by stretching the meanings of words like class and economic determinism almost to breaking point. But if the original concepts for which Marx is […]

“An independent central carbon bank would shield climate change policy from the incentives of electoral politics, allowing its board of scientists to make decisions that would be beneficial in the long term, even if those decisions are unpopular with voters,” argues Corwin Schlump. In a speech to the 1989 UN General Assembly, Margaret Thatcher proclaimed:

“None of my stepbrother’s friends grew up in an impoverished neighbourhood. But our social, familial and cultural bonds to such communities have had real impacts on our lives. … We’ve all experienced the streets; we’ve all been in proximity to violence and could easily have become perpetrators or victims of it,” writes John R. Wood

“Behind Harrington’s reactionary feminism is a reactionary anti-capitalism. For Harrington, modern industrial capitalism is an almost demonic force that destroys nature and traditional ways of life. In one way, she’s right. Capitalist modernity has a thoroughly demonic element—and it’s an aspect of modernity that the progressives she rails against rarely acknowledge.” In this week’s Areo

“The holy grail for the evolutionist is to prove the compatibility of free will with a mechanical universe—a tall order, indeed. For the complexity scientists, it is to show that consciousness arises as an emergent phenomenon associated with any sufficiently structured information network,” writes Steven Gussman. Consciousness is among the greatest outstanding scientific mysteries. We