Public Intellectual Series: Slavoj Žižek
No picture of the modern world is complete without a Marxist analysis. The fundamental point…
No picture of the modern world is complete without a Marxist analysis. The fundamental point…
In December 1899 Honolulu-based physicians attributed two deaths to bubonic plague, and a local paper…
I first heard the story of Gene Shepherd after receiving a 46th rejection slip for…
Hardly a week goes by without someone asking me about my connection to Christopher Hitchens.…
They who have put out the people’s eyes reproach them of their blindness. John Milton,…
I wrote what follows prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, and have been prompted to re-read…
The Irish media generally looks askance at Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘radical socialist manifesto.’[i] An historically warm…
It’s the grease that makes the economic wheels turn. But ask where your taxes go…
George Orwell has never been unfashionable, and is in vogue now more than ever. His…
It came as a surprise when the editor of Cassandra Voices divulged recently that he…
A past competition, now sadly in abeyance, used to involve arguing over who was the…
Over the course of 2019 there has been a sharp increase in deforestation in the…
But again, and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares…
As French President, François Mitterrand enjoyed his fair share of sumptuous feasts in the haute…
Irene H. Going into your house, I sat in the conservatory waiting for the door…
The Russian bear looms in the English-speaking imagination as savage and barbaric, but with a…
Mary Beatrice Midgley was a giant among philosophers, though she only published the first of her…
It is a river vast, both wide and deep that corrals out joy and sadness;…
I am sticking my neck out to declare: Micheal O’Siadhail’s book-length poem, The Five Quintets, is…
It is difficult to speak of abstract forces without personalising them, or investing them, magically,…