Rich and powerful men are doing unspeakable things—from bombing schoolgirls in Iran to trafficking and abusing girls in Manhattan and Florida.

This post is nothing fancy or profound; I just want to put some emotive meat on Karl Marx’s useful, perhaps essential, yet always slightly skeletal, concept of alienation. The necessity of working for ...

Explore whether communism remains relevant in the 21st century. This academic analysis examines Marxist ideas, global capitalism, social inequality, eco-socialism, and modern left movements shaping ...

There is a peculiar irony in the way states celebrate their youth. They speak of numbers with pride, percentages with optimism, and projections with confidence. A large young population becomes a ...

Step one: Don’t start by outsourcing your thinking. The promise of AI was always that it would handle certain kinds of work ...

Millions of people are now asking chatbots to summarize books, draft emails, and even explain political events to them. But ...

The remote work raises questions about the nature of labour, the role of technology, and the implications for workers' rights ...

Marx built part of his system on the belief that capital would create the “great reserve army of the unemployed,” and modern ...

Like many who attempt to pin him down, I encountered a conundrum. And then, unexpectedly, I encountered a chessboard. Marx played chess later in life, particularly during his London exile. There is ...

14 March of this year marked the 143rd death anniversary of Karl Marx, a revolutionary philosopher whom I do not need to introduce to my readers. Having known that he was buried in Highgate Cemetery, ...

Later thinkers expanded the method of suspicion. The philosopher Paul Ricoeur famously described Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud as the “masters of suspicion”—figures who sought to expose hidden power ...