by John Bellamy Foster (May 01, 2024) Albert Einstein (1959), charcoal and watercolor drawing by Alexander Dobkin. Dobkin (1908–1975) was an important painter of the mid-twentieth century American realist tradition along with other left-wing artists such as Jack Levine, Robert Gwathmey, Philip Evergood, and Raphael and Moses Soyer. A student and collaborator of the Mexican muralist Jose…

When quantum mechanics posed a threat to the Marxist doctrine of materialism, communist physicists sought to reconcile the two Jim Baggott is an award-winning British science writer based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is the co-author with John Heilbron of Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement (2024). Edited byNigel Warburton 3,500 words…

As India’s general election moves towards conclusion, the BJP’s Islamophobic rhetoric ratchets up. In the Progressive International’s 20th Briefing of 2024, we bring you the latest from India’s general election, where hate-filled campaign rhetoric is out of control. If you would like to receive our Briefing in your inbox, you can sign up using the…

… MAY 23, 2024 I. There’s been renewed debate around Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education recently, so I want to discuss one way I think about this question. Education isn’t just about facts. But it’s partly about facts. Facts are easy to measure, and they’re a useful signpost for deeper understanding. If someone has never heard…

May 16, 2024 OLIVER EAGLETON MAY 16, 2024 Intra-Marxist debates are famously irascible, even when their stakes are low. Yet in recent years this intellectual tradition has been further fractured, at the same time as it has been focused and reanimated, by the gravity of the climate crisis. The character of a future egalitarian society,…