Debates

I am a devotee at a South Indian temple a few miles south of Rochester, New York. It’s caste and gender neutral, at least in theory, and its murti, which …
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It is only fitting that the world premiere of Disney’s Wish took place in Los Angeles on November 8, 2023, hours after the end of the longest actors’ union strike …
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As Peter Hitchens pointed out, all big solutions (two states, one big democratic state…) sound impossible today, and the only glimmer of hope is the renewal of everyday collaboration and …
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The attack launched by Hamas at dawn on October 7 against military and civilian targets in Israel is the first entry of “foreign armed forces” into Israeli territory since 1948. …
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In speaking through the character of Ippolit in The Idiot, Dostoevsky put forward what he himself saw as the foolish hypothesis that beauty could somehow save the world. In the …
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Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darueber muss man schweigen. (Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.)[1]

In this final proposition of his Tractatus Wittgenstein prohibits the impossible. Why …
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It’s not surprising that the Western media have unilaterally labelled the Hamas October 7 attacks as a “new 9/11”. Of course, they refer to the official story about 9/11, indelibly …
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In Wilhelm von Humboldt’s book The Limits of State Action (1792), one of the most thoughtful expressions of classical liberalism, these passages appear:

“The true end of Man…is the highest …
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‘As we transition to a lower energy system (renewables replacing fossil fuels), growth-based economics will be phased out and replaced with something else.’ (Simon Michaux)

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The first week of …
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As Kohei Saito conclusively demonstrated in his path-breaking contribution to eco-Marxism[1], the only way to achieve real progress today is to problematize the very notion of progress which dominates not …
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