Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
'The Virtual Revolution'
BBC documentary that gives an overview of "two decades of profound change since the invention of the World Wide Web, weighing up the huge benefits and the unforeseen downsides."
Monday, July 2, 2012
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“[T]he United States also has undergone a less sanguine transformation: its citizens have become remarkably less civic, less politica...
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Western Marxism has often laid considerable stress upon the ideology of modern capitalist societies. This focus upon ideology stems from ...
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The relationship between the indigenous people of Australia and their native lands are essential to their traditional culture. The coloni...
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A short Goodreads Review of Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima that I wrote a little while ago. I have to say – I do not quite get the adorat...
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At the dawn of the 20th century large colonial powers had carved up the world between themselves. ‘Core’ zones were marked by their lev...
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“[A]nd each day hundreds of new orphans, Arabs and French, awakened in every corner of Algeria, sons and daughters without fathers who w...
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During a lecture before the Eugenics Society in 1937, British economist John Maynard Keynes stated that “a greater cumulative increment...
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Hyman P. Minsky’s “Financial Instability Hypothesis” has received renewed interest in light of the current malaise. Minsky attempted to f...
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The emergence and consolidation of the Tokugawa Bakufu between 1600 and 1603 marked the end of continual military conflict, which had en...