Understanding Society

The appeal of Marxist socialism -- communism -- as an alternative to the consumerism, inequality, and exploitation of European and American ...

Image: Ludwik Fleck as prisoner / scientist in Buchenwald An earlier post opened a discussion of the "historical turn" in the phi...

How do complex, socially embodied processes of cultural and scientific creation work? (I'm thinking of artistic traditions, scientific r...

In December 2020 I reviewed Hannah Arendt’s analysis of totalitarianism in The Origins of Totalitarianism ( link ) to try to assess the dam...

The sustained, extended atrocities of the twentieth century -- the genocide of the Holocaust, the Holodomor, totalitarian repression, the Gu...

In my book A New Social Ontology of Government (2020) I tried to provide an analytical inventory of the sources of "dysfunctions"...

In light of the horrific information now available about atrocities committed in Ukraine by occupying Russian forces in towns such as Bucha ...