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How to change the course of human history(at least, the part that's already happened)David Graeber David Wengrow Eurozine, 2 March 2018 The story we have been telling ourselves about our origins is wrong, and perpetuates the idea of inevitable social inequality. David Graeber and David Wengrow ask why the myth of 'agricultural revolution' remains so persistent, and argue that t..

Celebrating 50 years of an unforgettable tale of the desertBy Ken Layne Los Angeles Times, Feb 09, 2018 | 10:30 AM Joshua Trees in the Mojave Desert that was designated as a national monument by President Obama in 2016. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) Death Valley High School got a new bus driver in the fall of 1966. He was overqualified, with a master's degree in philosophy..

Hell of a Fiesta Enrique Krauze The New York ReviewMarch 8, 2018 Issue In the spring of 2017, and all through the year, social media feeds in Venezuela were filled with images of deprivation and despair: long lines of people hoping to purchase food; women fighting over a stick of butter; mothers who could not find milk to buy; children picking through garbage in search of somet..

Why we love tyrants Psychoanalysis explains how authoritarians energise the hatred, self-pity and delusion while promising heaven on Earth David Livingstone Smith AEON, 12 February, 2018 David Livingstone Smith is professor of philosophy at the University of New England, and director of the Human Nature Project. His latest book is Less Than Human (2011). Why have people welcom..

Perhaps It’s Time For South Korea To Go Nuclear Building their own arsenal could prove less costly than the complicated U.S. relationship. By Doug BandowThe American Conservative, February 14, 2018 Credit:Myella/Shutterstock North Korea’s Kim Jong-un plays the international game with style. He sent his sister, Kim Yo-jong, to the Olympic games in the Republic of Korea. And ..

Features March 1993 Camus todayby Renee WinegartenThe New Criterion, February, 2018 On Camus, Caligula, and neutrality. I am not a philosopher … and I only know how to speak of what I have lived. I have lived nihilism, contradiction, violence and the vertigo of destruction. —Albert Camus, Lettres sur la révolte Eustache Le Sueur, Caligula Depositing the Ashes of hi..

Books September 1985 The war according to Sartreby Roger Kimball The New Criterion, Feburuary, 2018 A review of The War Diaries of Jean-Paul Sartre, November 1939-March 1940 by Jean-Paul Sartre Ernesto Che Guevara reunited with Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, in Cuba. 1960. Photo: Alberto KordaJean-Paul Sartre was thirty-four years old when Germany attacked Poland on S..

(1980년대 초 4년간의 추억을 되새기며....)Eternal Rome The enduring allure of the Sacred City Martin Mosebach The First Things, March 2018 I was fifteen when I first saw Rome. One of my mother’s sisters had invited me to stay with her; we lived in a little hotel near the Via Nomentana and we were on our feet from morning till evening because I wanted to see “eve..

Death and Denial Jon Smith Dublin Review of BooksIssue 97, February 2018 My Father’s Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love and Die, by Kevin Toolis, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 275 pp, €16.50, ISBN: 978-1474605236 What separates the Irish and the British? What makes them truly different, as they are today: the legacy of eight hundred years of history, political syste..

Growth, Not Equality American history shows that expanding the economy benefits everyone. Amily Shlaes City Journal, Winter, 2018 Free marketeers may sometimes win elections, but they are not winning U.S. history. In recent years, the consensus regarding the American past has slipped leftward, and then leftward again. No longer is American history a story of opportunity, or of..