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  • Maria Popova: The Secret Behind 20 Years of Daily Writing

    The writer behind the legendary blog “The Marginalian” David Perell May 13, 2026 vMaria Popova is famous for her personal blog, The Marginalian, where she’s published more than six million words. All the nights I’ve spent reading her writing were like an entry point into intellectual curiosity. She’s introduced me to more writers and ideas than just…

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  • The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form

    BY MARIA POPOVA If the ancient Arab world had closed its gates to foreign travelers, we would have no medicine, no astronomy, and no mathematics — at least not as we know them today. Central to humanity’s quest to grasp the nature of the universe and make sense of our own existence is zero, which…

  • Marxian Ecology, East and West: Joseph Needham and a Non-Eurocentric View of the Origins of China’s Ecological Civilization

    by John Bellamy Foster Portrait of James Needham, adapted from a painting by James Wood, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. This article is based on a talk presented online to the School of Marxism, Shandong University, Jinan, China, in March 2023. It is revised and expanded from the original published version in International Critical Thought 13,…

  • The Crisis in Medicine: A Provocation

    A cardiologist argues that contemporary medicine may harm as much as help. AKSHAY PENDYAL NOV 23, 2023 In celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday, we will not host our weekly paid subscriber happy hour this Thursday or publish a piece this Friday. Our next offering will be this Saturday’s Good Fight podcast with Tim Urban. We…

  • Offering hope to the left (Until We Fall reviewed in ‘Morning Star’)

    Filed: Eastern Europe  Greece  Ireland  South Africa Until We Fall: Long Distance Life on the leftBy Helena Sheehan$28/360 pages/978-1-68590-027-4 Reviewed by John Green for Morning Star FOLLOWING on from her riveting first autobiographical volume Navigating the Zeitgeist, which captured 1950s cold-war America, the 1960s new left, and 1970s social movements, Helena Sheehan now gives us a follow-up of her extraordinary life. Until…

  • REVIEW OF THE MONTH

    ‘Monthly Review’ and the Environment by John Bellamy Foster and Batuhan Sarican (Nov 01, 2023) Topics: Ecology  Marxism  Marxist Ecology  Philosophy Places: Global Trail in Hoh rainforest (according to Flickr album), Olympic National Park, Washington, U.S. By Olympic National Park – rainforest_trail_NPS_Photo, Public Domain, Link. John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Oregon. Batuhan Sarican is editorial director of Gastro Eko, a news…

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