Towards a new socialism through the arrogance of the powerful
How is a market economy better than a centrally planned economy? Well, because everyone is better off. Someone becomes a billionaire, someone is just a little better off. But at…
On fertility and the survival of nations
Why don’t people have children? I mean, they have some, but it’s not enough. In many European countries the birth rate has stabilised at such a level that the population…
Notes on Johnny and Amber’s divorce
The events surrounding Johnny Depp’s divorce provide a good illustration of one of the ways in which conflict can be waged. It’s the “I want to hurt the fucker as…
Martin Konvicka: The end of the old heroes
For the uninitiated, the linguist (and academic “ultra-leftist”) Noam Chomsky is, or rather used to be yesterday, in the social sciences what James Watson was in biology or Richard Stallman…
Jan Keller: A war without borders
The war without borders has affected all sectors. In the ideological sphere, it has pulled on the tried and tested scarf of the struggle between absolute Good and absolute Evil.…
Jan Keller: They beat even Samuel Huntington
The desire to break down all boundaries is one of the central slogans of both right-wing neoliberalism and left-wing progressivism. For the former, a borderless world is a programmatic goal…