Marx and Rational Freedom I read Marx critically and not theologically, which is how Marx intended he be read. I appreciate the fact that...

The Existential Self-Hatred that Consumes the World Or, The Egoism that Eats God and Feeds Gods The main focus of this essay is the need...

I feel the need to make a little comment on a new book which argues that the critiques of Marx and Kierkegaard are complementary rather...

The Need for Reformation Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (c1466-1536) is one of my most favourite figures in the history of ideas, a man...

"The Left must advance an alternative modernity." And an alternative morality, I would insist. I wish to write a few words on Erik...

My review of John Bellamy Foster's The Return of Nature is generating some interest. With a substantial second part on Engels, this book...

This post is written in response to an article which compares and contrasts left- and right-wing political perspectives. From a...

It is exactly twenty five years ago since I was accepted as a doctoral student at Manchester, so I’ve been looking back, with a mixture...

Thoughts on Tocqueville, Democracy and Transcendent Standards Nietzsche was right, but Nietzsche went mad. He was right that truth and...

My work on Marx is described as ‘significant’ and ‘meticulous’ by Barbara Harriss-White in The Socialist Register. It is, actually. And...

Emerging from Under Modernity's Shadow Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the...

Maritain Not Martian I’m reading this article, Maritain the Martian by Randall Smith. Jacques Maritain was one of the most prolific and...

I came across this video and statement from Rob Hopkins of the Transitions Towns movement. I like Rob and his work on transitions. I...

Socialism and Liberalism Let me start by declaring myself an ‘enemy’ of ‘the Open Society.’ If you are smart enough, you will understand...

I wish to discuss aspects of this article, reviewing a new book by Erik Olin Wright: How to be an anti-capitalist in the 21st century I’d...

The Blight of Essentialism Hunting To begin, I quote from this feminist essay on the origins of the wrong turn taken by feminist studies...

The Eco-Republic The Eco-Republic The Republic in an Age of Social Ecology I'd like to talk a little about 'Green Republicanism' as it...

Christian Democracy in the collision of moral and economic imperatives This is an interesting read for me, as a socialist with religious...