Racial capitalism is a concept reframing the history of capitalism as grounded in the extraction of social and economic value from people of marginalized racial identities, typically from black people. It was described by Cedric J. Robinson...
Dear friends, Please read carefully, and act accordingly, with diligence and kindness. The future is always uncertain. But today it is possibly more unpredictable than ever. For the Iai's World Philosophy Day 2024, we asked leading thinkers how philosophy can help us...
Dear Neil and Michael, In line with the problem of the false economy and the failures of humanities and social science education in Australia. Here is the Free Thinker Institute, New York, meeting today. Garrett Lang introduced the Freethinker Institute...
From a voice on Quora: In defense of Americans, if they want to see mountains, they have mountains. If they want to see a lake, or the ocean, or the desert, or a tropical island, or even the arctic? They have all of it. All without having...
Dear friends, Thoughts? A wealthy school could afford to improve the teaching strategy, the same curriculum, by retro-technology. But in the United States there has been thinking on meritocracy for nearly a century, and, indeed, the reform of...
Featured Image: It Is Not Good. This is Not Good. Writers often have the common thought. Despite differing opinions there is a large coalition of thought against Trumpism. Nevertheless, I'm left with a horrible feeling that I am not read...
Dear Friends, Let's see if I am wrong. If Trump is so much a liar that he will not do what he passionately said he would do, or that he does have dictator ambitions. My money is on the latter. Day One is 20 January 2025. The 20th amendment to the...
Bruce Springsteen, On the streets of Philadelphia I was bruised and battered I couldn't tell what I felt I was unrecognizable to myself Saw my reflection in a window And didn't know my own face Oh brother are you gonna leave me...
Allan Jay Lichtman (born April 4, 1947) is an American historian. He has taught at American University in Washington, D.C. since 1973. Lichtman created The Keys to the White House system with Soviet seismologist Vladimir Keilis-Borok in 1981. The system uses 13...