Dear Thad: Let me begin by explaining that I don’t get off on pornography. Watching other people have sex doesn't make me horny; at most it makes me curious. Rather, I am writing you concerning the very vexing question of why I get off watching a representation of me getting off. My partner was ...

More than a month ago, Peter Levine asked 10 thoughtful questions about Occupy Wall Street. In the spirit of one of the most succinct works of philosophy in Western history, let me provide 11 answers, as 2011 comes to a close. 1) It wasn't just Time magazine; it was a whole ...

Are Mormons Christian?  To contemporary Latter-day Saint (LDS) Mormons (the largest Mormon denomination) this question might seem silly.  After all, their church bears the name of Jesus Christ.  But there's a historical context behind this question that has to do with the history of Christianity and of Mormonism.  Once this context ...

Causes and effects. Some of the terrible things that are happening in the world are long-term effects of things that happened decades, or centuries, ago. The way in which an act of terrorism against innocents in New York City is tied, configurally, historically, to events of 1649, 1953, or 1876 can't be reduced to comfortable ...

Where: Pauley Ballroom on UC Berkeley's Campus When: Friday, December 2nd at 7pm Cornel West, one of America's most notable intellectuals, and Carl Dix, one of the founders of the Revolutionary Communist Party, will exchange in a dialogue on UC Berkeley's campus as part of their nation-wide campus tour. Their talk entitled "In the Age of ...

ATTN: San Francisco Bay Area! The International Socialist Organization will be sponsoring a unique conference on Marxism this Saturday, November 5th, from 10am-6pm at UC Berkeley.

GOP politicians have no policy answers which don’t result in more money flowing into the hands of the already rich. And all they can think of in terms of messaging is to fall back on their tired history of dividing Americans. But it’s not working this time.

A couple of weeks ago I spent an afternoon with some of my students in Salina, KS, listening to Naomi Klein and a couple of earnest agronomists and botanists, and in a sense they were all talking about the exact same thing: how a particular sort of local work and ...

Capitalists, when they buy stock (or “invest”) their cash, are really just pooling their property (money) with the property of other capitalists with the express purpose of gaining the economic advantages which a larger pool of resources will command. Labor has every right to do the very same “pooling”.

This is generally a good thing. The National Forensics League, which encapsulates the vast majority of high school speech and debate in the United States, has released the potential topics for its value debate division, or "Lincoln-Douglas" debate. Five of these topics will be debated throughout the school year at interscholastic ...