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Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no university without humane inquiry, whi...more

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[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly co...more

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When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial social role. It was...more

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A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, f...more

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Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

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In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed dise...more

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... Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What us...more

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Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

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Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

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You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

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It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.