Robert F. Barsky
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Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s most famous and respected intellectuals, will be 96 years old on Dec. 7, 2024. For more than...
By Rainer Forst
On June 18, Jürgen Habermas, who has had a lasting impact on the humanities and social sciences at Goethe University, turns 95, and our academic community, of which he is still an active member, sends its warmest...
In the complex realm of contemporary Russia, social life has become a challenging cauldron of ideas, dissent, and resistance. Under the regime of President Vladimir Putin, the nation’s intellectual circles have traversed a disturbing path, marked by a delicate...
By KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD
June 25 is the 92nd birth anniversary of the almost forgotten Mandal Messiah
On June 25, a celebration meeting of V. P. Singh’s 92 birth anniversary meeting has been planned by several pro-social justice organisations at the...
Image credit Francisco Anzola via Flickr CC BY 2.0.
Nelson Mandela is deified everywhere. But typically missing is an account of his early years, when he insisted that Marxism be responsive to South African conditions.
In the extensive mythologizing of Nelson...
By Mahdi Blaine
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As a child in the 1960s, my mother would routinely pass a secondary school on her way home in downtown Algiers named Lycée Frantz Fanon. To her, the name was...
By David Barsamian – Noam ChomskyCover for the book Notes on Resistance by Noam Chomsky and David BarsamianDavid Barsamian: What we are facing is often described as unprecedented — a pandemic, climate catastrophe and, always lurking off center stage,...
Michael Sergeyevich Gorbachev, MSB hereafter, the last president of the Soviet Union died on August 30, in Moscow. He was born on March 2 1931. President Putin of Russia, the successor state to the Soviet Union, paid his respects...
I still believe that bad theology can do harm, if not immediately, certainly in the long run…I am inclined to be more reticent and restrained while speaking about the mysteries of God’s revelation….I know theology is not divinity; to...
Henry Kissinger (2022): Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy, New York: Penguin Press (Pp. 528).
Every society craves a credible, mature and patronal type of leadership. A leader who shapes the country and governs thy kind in the present in...
