The Philosopher's Stone

Re-reading Capital is for me a rare experience.   I feel as though I am once again spending my time as I was meant to do, not devoting ...

Jerome Doolittle, who has just appeared here, and others collectively run a blog called "Bad Attitudes."  You can find it here.   ...

Well, my "contest" elicited some wonderful stories, for which I thank you all.  The longest and the best came as an e-mail from Je...

OK.  Here is a new competition for college-level teachers:  What is the most egregious student failure to recognize a cultural reference in ...

Today I finished re-reading the great Chapter Ten of Capital , "The Working Day."  It is in this chapter that the clouds of mystif...

Jerry Fresia raises a very interesting question.   He says " I would imagine too that the various editions of Capital (in languages...

I had forgotten the exquisitely leisurely pace at which Marx unfolds his theory in the opening seven or eight chapters of Capital .  It is s...