Loneliness Unsolved
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
Hannah Arendt (1964) - What Remains? (Full Interview w/ Günter Gaus)
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
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A report on the banality of evil
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
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
Review - Backfire: How sanctions reshape the world against U.S. interests
Demarais, A. (2024). Backfire: How sanctions reshape the world against U.S. interests. Columbia University Press. Backfire in context Economic sanctions have become Washington’s [...] Read more
The Economics of Incarceration: Detention Capitalism Is Here, No One Is Safe.
Click here to read As the US becomes an authoritarian dictatorship wielding all instruments of fear it possibly can, reports in mainstream news networks have begun flooding in of tourists with valid [...] Read more
Technophilia: The Mental Illness Behind Civilisational Collapse
Read here Global capital has deceived billions who cared about the planet by selling them “green solutions” that are anything but green, simply by virtue of the fact that these solutions are [...] Read more
Jeremy Lent: The Web of Meaning
Jeremy Lent: The Web of Meaning Jeremy Lent returns to The Commonwealth Club to discuss the ideas in his new book, which weaves together the latest scientific findings with age-old philosophical [...] Read more
The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement
Western views and the legal system tend to view nature as property, and as a resource from which wealth is extracted, a commodity whose only value is to provide for human needs. But for millennia [...] Read more
A Life of One’s Own: A Penetrating Century-Old Field Guide to Self-Possession, Mindful Perception, and the Art of Knowing What You Really Want
Click here to access A Life of One’s Own: A Penetrating Century-Old Field Guide to Self-Possession, Mindful Perception, and the Art of Knowing What You Really Want One must know what one wants to be [...] Read more