The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity Click here to read article [...] Read more

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was one of the most outstanding Portuguese poets of all time, and this celebrated poem, Tabacaria, a complex, melancholic, and inspired meditation, is one of his most [...] Read more

Lying in Politics - Hannah Arendt (1972) [...] Read more

Introduction In Platform Capitalism (2017), Nick Srnicek offers a concise but incisive examination of how capitalism has adapted to the digital age, reshaping itself through the emergence of [...] Read more

Introduction In The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Shoshana Zuboff offers a sweeping and urgent critique of how capitalism has mutated in [...] Read more

A Chorus of Defiance Fifty years after the Vietnam War’s end, lessons from the peace movement on mobilizing resistance. David Cortright hen news of the end of the Vietnam War arrived fifty years [...] Read more

Roger Berkowitz, 08-31-2024 The basic experience underlying totalitarianism, the experience that continues today to make it likely that totalitarianism remains a constant concern, is loneliness, an [...] Read more

An interview with Hannah Arendt about her life and work in 1964 with Günter Gaus. This is a version of a re-upload. The translation is my own, but parts also come from the published version by Joan [...] Read more

Arendt, H. (2006). Eichmann in Jerusalem: A report on the banality of evil. Penguin Classics. (Original work published 1963) Hannah Arendt coined the phrase “the banality of evil” in Eichmann in [...] Read more

Finding Meaning in An Increasingly Absurd World Posted on April 28, 2025, by George Tsakraklides Click here to read Although society at large will never find the courage to acknowledge its [...] Read more