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Review of Enzo Traverso, Revolution: An Intellectual History…
As Musk takes control are we heading to an ‘everything app’ or the break-up of academic Twitter?
After much speculation, Twitter has been acquired by Elon Musk. In this post, Mark Carrigan asks, if now is the time to rethink academic twitter by separating out the knowledge exchange and…
Lula beats Bolsonaro in Brazil’s runoff election
With 50.84% of the votes, the former president and leader of the Workers' Party became the president of the South American giant in an election marked by polarization, fake news, and electoral…
Has Vladimir Putin been outflanked by the Russian far right?
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the Kremlin has sought to minimise the reality of war, however on the far right, many feel that Russia is holding back too much and are increasingly calling…
Ales Bialiatski, Center for Civil Liberties and Memorial receive the Nobel Peace Prize – 2022
The winners represent civil society in their home countries. For many years, they have promoted the right to criticize power and to protect the fundamental rights of citizens…
Globalization and the shaping of the new University world
Not only has the usual functioning of universities changed, but also the whole relationship between the university and the societies to which they respond…
Karl Popper and the social engineering: utopian vs. piecemeal
The philosophical and sociological debate about utopian engineering as an erroneous construction of society is of utmost importance since Economics, Sociology and Political Science all have deep historical roots, as Karl Popper…
Is ‘cultural Marxism’ really taking over universities?
The term “cultural Marxism” moved into the media mainstream around 2016, when psychologist Jordan Peterson was protesting a Canadian bill prohibiting discrimination based on gender. Peterson blamed cultural Marxism for phenomena like…
Artificial intelligence is a totalitarian’s dream
Individualistic Western societies are built on the idea that no one knows our thoughts, desires, or joys better than we do. And so we put ourselves, rather than the government, in charge…
How democracies die – Review
Justification of democracy has become an essential theme in the current literature on political philosophy. Different factors have created the conditions for this to happen, but mainly they can be resumed in…