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    Vivek Chibber's defense of materialism
    • May 29
    • 8 min

    Vivek Chibber's defense of materialism

    [This is a review published at H-Socialisms.] Vivek Chibber. The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn. Harvard University...
    On stupidity and the excesses of wokeness
    • Apr 8
    • 9 min

    On stupidity and the excesses of wokeness

    One of the first laws of human existence, or at least of existence in class societies (determined by anti-human institutions that mold...
    Eleven Theses on Socialist Revolution
    • Aug 22, 2021
    • 16 min

    Eleven Theses on Socialist Revolution

    The good folks at DSA (of which I'm a proud member) were kind enough to publish the following article recently in their online...
    The truth about gender
    • Jul 9, 2021
    • 9 min

    The truth about gender

    Some months ago I saw Richard Dawkins recommend on Twitter a new book called The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and...
    On humans' language faculty
    • Jun 15, 2021
    • 11 min

    On humans' language faculty

    You may have heard of the “talking gorilla” Koko. I remember as a child reading about this fascinating creature that had been trained to...
    Critiques of Richard Rorty (and postmodernism)
    • May 25, 2021
    • 12 min

    Critiques of Richard Rorty (and postmodernism)

    [Here are notes I took many years ago while reading Richard Rorty’s famous book Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. As you’ll see from...
    Personal reflections on anarchism
    • Mar 4, 2021
    • 9 min

    Personal reflections on anarchism

    Anarchism (anti-authoritarianism, love of freedom) is an essential thing, an essential guide for our thinking and action, but I have to...
    "Revolution in the Twenty-First Century: A Reconsideration of Marxism"
    • Sep 8, 2020
    • 21 min

    "Revolution in the Twenty-First Century: A Reconsideration of Marxism"

    [An article from several months ago.] In the age of COVID-19, it’s even more obvious than it’s been for at least a couple of decades that...
    Journal-notes on cognitive science
    • Sep 6, 2020
    • 19 min

    Journal-notes on cognitive science

    [From 2015.] Reading a bunch of articles on cognitive development. A fascinating field. Interesting: Human infants who receive little...
    Biology and destiny
    • Sep 1, 2020
    • 5 min

    Biology and destiny

    [Notes from ten years ago.] I’m amazed at the extent of our culture’s cult of secrecy in matters of the body. Even in this age, people...
    Methodological individualism vs. holism
    • Aug 26, 2020
    • 16 min

    Methodological individualism vs. holism

    If you're like me and are dumb enough to take an interest in abstruse debates among social scientists, you may have heard of the "debate"...
    Why I am not a Leninist (nor an anarchist)
    • Aug 24, 2020
    • 25 min

    Why I am not a Leninist (nor an anarchist)

    Years later, I still reproach myself for self-publishing my book on cooperatives, because that ensured it would have a limited...
    The definition of knowledge
    • Aug 22, 2020
    • 23 min

    The definition of knowledge

    Philosophers have a tendency to treat questions that revolve around the meaning of a particular concept as if they are more substantive...
    Old student notes on random philosophy articles
    • Jun 28, 2020
    • 7 min

    Old student notes on random philosophy articles

    Sometimes I like to return to philosophy in order to get the sort of intellectual stimulation that reading history doesn't provide. E.g.,...
    Old syllabus and lecture notes
    • Jun 9, 2020
    • 8 min

    Old syllabus and lecture notes

    [Here are some notes from the first syllabus I wrote for the U.S. History After 1865 survey course. Below them are overly ambitious notes...
    Rambling reflections on Camille Paglia
    • Jun 6, 2020
    • 16 min

    Rambling reflections on Camille Paglia

    I've been reading Camille Paglia's collection of essays Sex, Art, and American Culture (1992). I disagree with a lot of Paglia's...
    On the fight against misogyny
    • Jul 27, 2019
    • 5 min

    On the fight against misogyny

    As a leftist, "I wish we could all just get along." Wouldn't that be nice? Maybe it would get boring pretty quickly. But a little less...
    A little misanthropy can be a healthy thing
    • Jul 24, 2019
    • 19 min

    A little misanthropy can be a healthy thing

    This is from a letter Sigmund Freud wrote to his pastor friend Oskar Pfister: I do not break my head very much about good and evil, but I...
    A plea for honesty in discussions of sex and gender
    • Jul 19, 2019
    • 7 min

    A plea for honesty in discussions of sex and gender

    A recent article of mine, called "Political Correctness Is Getting Out of Hand," elicited some angry emails. Not from people who...
    The individual and history
    • May 30, 2018
    • 6 min

    The individual and history

    Questions Raised by 9/11, and Their Answers [An old grad-school paper] Lawrence Wright’s book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to...
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