Opinion

The Soul in the Machine

The intellectual landscape of Bengal has historically been a dialogue between the "Red Flag" and the "Ochre Robe," a dialectic between Karl Marx’s historical materialism and Swami Vivekananda’s ...
Discover Frederic Bastiat's influence as a 19th-century economist known for critiquing protectionism and promoting free trade ...
Beckert's book, a sweeping 1,300-page history, synthesizes bits and pieces of the academic literature to recount the ...
Queen's University, Ontario provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. Queen's University, Ontario provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. When OpenAI’s Sam Altman ...
Nothing screams “fall fashion” like a cozy midweight scarf complemented with a side of class struggle. That’s the message from embattled retailer Target, who’s been caught pushing communist literature ...
There’s a particular kind of horror in getting dumped online. Maybe it was a WhatsApp essay that started with “Hey… so I’ve been thinking”, or the more savage route of a sudden Instagram block. Brutal ...
An alienation clause, also known as a due-on-sale clause, is a standard provision in most mortgage agreements. It requires the borrower to repay the full loan balance if the property is sold or ...
The proletarian party is the political expression of the workers’ movement, in that it reveals through its program the values and goals of the proletariat. The more powerfully its foundation unfolds ...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has joined in on the criticism of Zohran Mamdani claiming the Democratic Party candidate is too radical to become the Big Apple's next mayor. Much of this criticism ...
Karl Marx didn’t live to see the rise of artificial intelligence, but he had a good sense of where things might be heading. Writing in the thick of the 19th-century Industrial Revolution, Marx was ...