A peek into the genius’ complete mental disintegration. Ujjwal Singh ·Published in Cantor’s Paradise · “My own work by then did not amount to much, but I came into the office just to have the privilege of being permitted to walk home with Kurt Gödel”~ Einstein on Gödel When Einstein talks of someone in the…

As sales slump, the labour of trying to bottle hype is largely left to writers BY TAJJA ISEN THERE’S A MISLEADING nugget about book sales that’s gone viral twice in the past fifteen months: the notion that, of all the trade titles published in a year, half sell fewer than a dozen copies. The statistic was originally…

Marcell Musto Among the many topics to which Karl Marx devoted his interest, one of the less well-known is his critique of so-called “technical government” — that is, governments led by supposed “experts” not affiliated with political parties. As a contributor to the New York Tribune, one of the widest- circulation dailies of his day,…

The case wasn’t as complicated as the judgment makes it out to be. I think that maybe 200 or 250 pages of the judgment were not necessary.. Karan Thapar GOVERNMENTLAWRIGHTS24/DEC/2023 One of the most highly regarded former judges of the Supreme Court, Justice Madan Lokur, recently told Karan Thapar that the Supreme Court has erred and cannot…

Marcelo Musto  Jacobin Today marks 150 years since the first French edition of Capital. This wasn’t just a translation but a “completely revised” work — showing how Karl Marx’s research continually renewed his critical perspective on capitalist development. In February 1867, after more than two decades of herculean work, Karl Marx told his friend Friedrich…