The Philosopher's Stone

 Unknown asks, " In your lectures of the Critique you didn't seem too keen on Hegel, what gives?" It is quite simple. I have s...

Well, Columbia did not want my graduate course called Marx, Freud, Marcuse: Thesis, Anthithesis, Synthesis.  But UNC does, so I will be teac...

I continue to find every page of Charles Mills's book brilliant. By the way, S. Wallerstein is quite wrong about the book. Mills says re...

I have now reread about 1/3 of The Racial Contract by Charles Mills, the last major work to be assigned in my course next semester, and my l...

Spoiler alert: this is about today’s New York Times crossword puzzle so if you like doing it and have not tackled it yet do not read this bl...

Things are so bad politically in the United States right now that I find it difficult getting to sleep at night. The only glimmer of hope th...

Michael talked a bit about Eric Erikson and concluded his comment with some very kind words about me so I thought I would take the occasion ...