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Korea is one of the critical flashpoints in the world today. News of North Korea's recent nuclear tests, conducted in defiance of international pre...

Korea is one of the critical flashpoints in the world today. News of North Korea's recent nuclear tests, conducted in defiance of international pre...

Siegfried Kracauer was one of the most important German thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings on Weimar culture, mass society, photograph...

Saul Kripke has been a major influence on analytic philosophy and allied fields for a half-century and more. His early masterpiece, Naming and Nece...

Saul Kripke has been a major influence on analytic philosophy and allied fields for a half-century and more. His early masterpiece, Naming and Nece...

Julia Kristeva is one of the most creative and prolific writers to address the personal, social, and political trials of our times. Linguist, psych...

Julia Kristeva is one of the most creative and prolific writers to address the personal, social, and political trials of our times. Linguist, psych...

Thomas Kuhn's shadow hangs over almost every field of intellectual inquiry. His book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has become a modern cl...

Thomas Kuhn's shadow hangs over almost every field of intellectual inquiry. His book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has become a modern cl...

Labor is the source of all wealth. Without workers, the world's natural resources cannot be transformed into finished goods and services cannot be ...

Labor is the source of all wealth. Without workers, the world's natural resources cannot be transformed into finished goods and services cannot be ...

Fewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world. With tremendous growth in ineq...

Fewer than 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to unions, and union membership rates are falling in much of the world. With tremendous growth in ineq...

Work is, and always will be, a central institution of society. What makes a capitalist society unique is that it treats the human capacity to engag...

Work is, and always will be, a central institution of society. What makes a capitalist society unique is that it treats the human capacity to engag...

Quintessentially fascinating, love intrigues and perplexes us, and drives much of what we do in life. As wary as we may be of its illusions and dis...

Quintessentially fascinating, love intrigues and perplexes us, and drives much of what we do in life. As wary as we may be of its illusions and dis...

Land is one of the world's most emotionally resonant resources, and control over it is fundamental to almost all human activity. From the local lev...

Land is one of the world's most emotionally resonant resources, and control over it is fundamental to almost all human activity. From the local lev...

Black nationalist ideas have been debated and discussed over the centuries, and have shaped black religious, cultural, economic and intellectual th...

The impersonality of social relationships in the society of strangers is making majorities increasingly nostalgic for a time of closer personal t...

The impersonality of social relationships in the society of strangers is making majorities increasingly nostalgic for a time of closer personal t...

As a heatwave hits Paris, the author's entire existence is disrupted and disoriented by the effects of climate change. All his normal reference poi...