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Why is Alexander Dugin suddenly attacking ‘Whites’?

Constantin von Hoffmeister -
The Russian philosopher has sparked outrage, but his target is not race – it’s the liberalism and nihilism of modern Western civilization. “Whites? They are...

Why Socrates was deeply critical of democracy

Daily Telegraph NZ -
Living in Athens during the height of its democratic experiment, Socrates became one of its most famous critics, not because he opposed participation, but...

Who’s afraid of the AI Boogeyman?

Bert Olivier -
It is becoming ever more obvious that many people fear rapidly developing Artificial Intelligence (AI), for various reasons, such as its supposed superiority, compared...

Preference falsification and cascade

Jeffrey A. Tucker -
Tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen posted the following: “We are living through the most dramatic preference cascade of my life. Every day I am hearing...

Schopenhauer: Humanity’s fall to irrationality

Bert Olivier -
In the third section of The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music (1872) Friedrich Nietzsche quotes the ancient tragedian, Sophocles, where...

The Boy Who Trapped Death in a Nut

Hayley Kynefin -
There is a Scottish folk tale that provides an apt metaphor for the ethical-philosophical problem of the Covid era. It is called “Death in a...

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