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With this text we want to salute an absolutely arbitrary event in the life of one of the most important thinkers in today’s world. The event is his 70th birthday. …
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All thinking bears the stamp of the unique time when and the place where it happens. Political philosophy is not an exception to this rule. Perhaps, it is still more …
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In his book Better Never to Have Been (recently translated in Italian by Carbonio Editore), David Benatar takes further the famous idea by Albert Camus that “there is but one …
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Back in the late 1920s, Stalin was asked by a journalist which deviation is worse, the Rightist one (Bukharin&company) or the Leftist one (Trotsky&company), and he snapped back: “They are …
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What a pleasure to have both of you with us tonight, Ms. Arendt, Mr. Trump! We’re discussing your controversial wall bill tonight, Mr. President, and our audience has paired you …
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What is a “state of emergency”? Etymologically, “state” derives from the Latin word “status”, which refers to a “matter of standing”, a condition. “Emergency”, from “emergere”, to “arise, bring to …
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In some Leftist circles, the exploding growth of homeless refugees gave rise to the notion of “nomadic proletariat.” The basic idea is that, in today’s global world, the main antagonism …
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As every disaster nerd knows well, a large part of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is now an ecological reserve. While small animals like birds, voles, and insects show a general …
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Neoliberalism is an eminently contentious term. Interestingly, most characterizations of what it happens to be have come from self-described opponents of neoliberal ideology. Many of alleged neoliberals-from F.A Hayek to …
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The country that Franklin Delano Roosevelt admonished not to succumb to fear and John F. Kennedy challenged to put humans on the moon within a decade, the most powerful country …
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