Aldous Huxley: The Ultimate Revolution
Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, rated number one in the List Muse Top 100 Fiction books list, here discusses influence, controlling the public mind and government. “There will be, in the next...
View ArticleIs Belief in Richard Dawkins Necessary for Salvation?
Terry Eagleton delivers the 2008 Dwight H. Terry Lectures at Yale on Faith and Fundamentalism. Terry Eagleton, John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester, has...
View ArticleThe Violence of Illusion
Amartya Sen on Identity and Violence. In his otherwise thought provoking lecture, Sen appears to assume that identities are only determined, discovered or assumed. He overlooks the fact that sometimes...
View ArticleThe Essential Marcuse
Andrew Feenberg discusses his new collection of essays by Herbert Marcuse. The most influential radical philosopher of the 1960s, Marcuse’s writings are noteworthy for their uncompromising opposition...
View ArticlePlaying with Political Fire
by Brenda Heard The timing of political manoeuvring often reveals the stark business of domination. Sometimes the timing is flagrant, like the recent commotion in Greece. In the very hours of...
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