“All the old crap of the thirties is coming back again — the sh-t about the ‘class line,’ the ‘role of the working class,’ ...

Not to disparage David Bowie,” Alan Bennett remarked in 2016, “but if even a fraction of the tributes being paid to him and ...

New research brings to light contributions from forgotten female figures ...

The removal of the study of the Humanities i.e., classics, literature and philosophy, from the syllabus of school children in Sri Lanka has destroyed their capacity to think and value thought of ...

THE subject is on the curriculum of many departments of philosophy — Filipino philosophy. Leonardo Mercado, an SVD missionary and a prolific writer on the subject, has written repeatedly about it. I ...

CounterPunch recently republished two compelling articles about Herbert Marcuse. Charles Reitz’s study, “When Marxist Intellectuals Collaborated With the CIA,” (December 12, 2025); and Michael Yates ...

Every FEW years, some novel (or supposedly timeworn) Nordic concept comes along to seize the imaginations of Europe’s forward-thinking and trendy. Some are practical: think Alfred Nobel’s dynamite, ...

“Upon those who step into the same rivers, different and again different waters flow,” said pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitu, emphasizing the trickiness of navigating our way through an ...

Matthieu Renault is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, and a member of the Laboratory of Studies and Research on Contemporary Logics of Philosophy (LLCP). Recent ...

Plato and Aristotle in discussion, 1437, by Luca della Robbia (ca 1400-1482), marble tile, depicts two of the greatest philosophers, who wrote two of the all-time best philosophy books. Philosophy ...