John Foster / 11 Aug 2023
Max Weber Today
Wendy Brown’s Nihilistic Times
Max Weber is the thinker of modernity par excellence.(...)
Jürgen Habermas
John Foster / 16 Jun 2023
The Coming Capitalism
The New Feudalism, Part II
The United States of Coke, or illiberal Hungary? It's hard to get excited.(...)
John Foster / 09 Jun 2023
The New Feudalism
Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism
In Cory Doctorow’s dystopian novel Attack Surface, a disaffected hacker provides a tart postmortem for liberal democracy.(...)
John Foster / 12 Aug 2022
Marx on Neoliberalism
Hyperculture, by Byung Chul-Han
Korean-German philosopher Byung Chul-Han is the quintessential postmodern figure. Having to come to Germany to study metallurgy, he switched fields and mastered the argot of German philosophy.(...)
John Foster / 16 Oct 2020
Democracy in Crisis
Habermas Against the Fascists
As far as philosophers go, few qualify for the household name category in Germany more than 91-year-old Jürgen Habermas.(...)
John Foster / 22 May 2019
The End is Nigh
Looking For a Better Europe
Elections for the European Parliament begin Thursday and predictions of doom and gloom are the order of the day. And why not?(...)