This is just what happens when bad people in your life reveal an ugly truth about themselves. If you learn that someone in your life is cool with their government supporting a genocide, you can just sort of let your feelings and natural inclinations lead the way on that.| Caitlin Johnstone
This essay, on the debate over decolonising Shakespeare, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 23 March 2025, under the headline “Why decolonise Shakespeare when all the world’s a stage for his ideas on injustice?” “My quarrel with the English language,” James Baldwin wrote in his essay Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare, had been “that the language reflected none of my experience.” And so “I condemned him as one of the authors and architects of my oppression...| Pandaemonium
We went to the Vivaldi Sound & Light Show at Saint Stephens Cathedral in Brisbane. See a few photos & some short videos that share the essence of the evening.| Write of the Middle
by John Eglin James Boswell, like a number of wealthy and well-connected British travelers in Italy, could expect to move […] The post James Boswell and the ‘Whisperers’ appeared first on Edinburgh University Press Blog.| Edinburgh University Press Blog
The concept of “the Dark Ages” is central to several key elements in much anti-religious polemic. One of the primary myths most beloved by many anti-theists is the one whereby Christianity violently suppressed ancient Greco-Roman learning, destroyed an ancient intellectual culture based on pure reason and retarded a nascent scientific and technological revolution, thus plunging Europe into a one thousand year “dark age” which was only relieved by the glorious dawn of “the Renaissa...| History for Atheists
In December 1775, Pope Pius VI released his famed encyclical entitled Inscrutabilie Divinae Sapientiae. Translated as “The Inscrutable Divine Wisdom,” the Pope used his platform to issue a commentary on the most pressing issues of the time. Among the many topics he touched on were threats to the Catholic Church, the shifting politics of Europe, […]| Journal of the American Revolution
‘The primary function of a book is to recreate the author’s ideas in the reader’s mind’. So writes librarian and curator Paul Dijstelberge in the introduction to Máté Bartha’s Anima Mundi.| c4 journal
We throw around the term ‘dissident’ a lot. But what do we mean when we say it? The post What Is A Dissident? appeared first on The Hidden Dominion.| The Hidden Dominion
My top-10 life-changing ideas features: adult learning, adult development, ikigai, birth lottery, self-inquiry, free will, and more| Sloww
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ “Being a guru is weird, man. I mean, how many different ways can you say ‘Hey you ever notice how everything just kinda is? Well, it ju…| Caitlin Johnstone
One of the most important articles for dissidents to read is an essay that dates back to 1936 that discusses the Great American Remnant.| The Hidden Dominion
“Sociability was a key word for Enlightenment thinkers. The pleasures of hearing unanticipated viewpoints and a variety of storytelling talents, music, theater, and interpretive conversations managed to weave and to sustain the political fabric of democracies. That social fabric has frayed over time, while investments in the humanities also erode. This is no coincidence. The weave and the practices of equitable interchange need mending today, as democracy shows signs of unraveling along ant...| The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Foundation
The Enlightenment has long been associated with the rise of modern Europe, and more generally with the concept of a typically European Modernity that took root in its wake. What it means to be ‘modern’ is indelibly bound up with our understanding of the Enlightenment’s core concepts: reason, religious toleration, civic virtue, political liberty, and scientific progress, to name but a few. For some, the Enlightenment is an essentially philosophical matter; for others it was and remains d...| Glenn Roe
‘La lettre au fil du temps: philosophe.’| Glenn Roe
As country after country has gone into COVID-19 lockdown, we have all had to learn to communicate, network, teach, study and relate online in ways unimaginable a few short years – or even months – ago. This phenomenon is just the latest stage in the information-technology revolution and part and parcel of the ongoing development of an increasingly digital society. This revolution has touched almost every aspect of our lives, from how we work, study, shop, relax and even make and maintain ...| Glenn Roe
This Australian Research Council Discovery Project is a cross-institutional collaboration between ANU (Glenn Roe and Robert Wellington), The University of Melbourne (Erin Helyard), The University of Sydney (Mark Ledbury), and Oxford University (Nicholas Cronk). Through the study of a unique and ambitious eighteenth-century songbook – Jean-Benjamin de Laborde’s Choix de Chansons (1773) – our project provides a workable solution to these questions by way of the notion of ‘transdisciplin...| Glenn Roe
A collaborative digital research project| Glenn Roe