Understanding Society

The three greatest threats we face today seem almost insurmountable. They include global climate change, whose consequences are potentially ...

Thomas Edsell's piece in the August 3, 2022 New York Times offers a truly chilling view of the plans currently underway by Donald Trump...

There is certainly a working class in the United States, and it is a majority of the population (persons who earn their livelihood through w...

An earlier post ( link ) highlighted the growing severity of inequalities of wealth and income in the United States, as well as Elizabeth Wa...

What were the social conditions that led many English intellectuals in the 1930s to engage in fundamental critique of the society in which t...

H. B. Acton gained celebrity with the publication of Illusion of the Epoch in 1955, supposedly as a serious philosopher's even-handed e...

Philosopher Sidney Hook is best remembered for his debates with other philosophers and engaged political figures about Marxism and Communism...

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