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Everyone knows the Lord of the Flies. The fictional novel in which children are left on an island alone, which brings out the most terrible parts of humans. What almost nobody knows is what happened when real kids, in the real world, found themselves alone in an isolated island. The real Lord of The Flies […]

We believe debts are a moral duty – one must pay one’s debts! A job is always creating value to society, right? Graeber’s work, an anarchist and anthropologist who sadly died in 2020, summarizes and criticizes so many of our societal ideas and dogmas that we take for granted. It is a joy to listen

Suffices to say you’ll understand multiple stats principles better after reading this book than after reading most stats book (I read many prior to reading this book), and that you’ll never think of your brain and ‘rationality’ on the same way again. Written by the only psychologist who ever won a Nobel prize in economics

There is an opposite image of the world if one considers which countries and people cause and have caused the catastrophe (the richer, the guiltier), and those who have neither contributed to the problem, nor have they benefited from our high carbon economy (the poorer, the most affected). Climate change is developing throughout colonial and

Why is inequality a problem, shouldn’t we just want to lift people out of poverty independently of whether there are billionaires or not? These and multiple lines of argument are analyzed logically and clearly by Nathan Robinson. Unlike most of us on the left, Nathan actively engages with the arguments that are frequently put forward

An elegant and data-driven and logic analyses of the myths of green capitalism. The mainstream assumption is that, because ecological costs are ‘external’ to the market, once we ‘internalize’ them, then these reflected costs will affect market forces, and then everything will be solved. Let’s just put a correct price on carbon emissions, and on

Although I went through a panic attack while reading some of the predictions linked to climate change in this book, I highly recommend it. Few books have made me question many dogmas – like economic growth and G.D.P, like less is more. Always with strong data to support his statements, and with international social justice

I used to believe I understood how the world works. We vote, we can demand action from those in power. We can complain about what they do – or fail to do. No idea did I have of the international legal structures built exclusively to prevent autonomy and governance from countries. Jason Hickel devotes a

Perhaps two extracts can exemplify how powerful this writing is: “The fact is that the so-called European civilization – “Western” civilization – as it has been shaped by two centuries of bourgeois rule, is incapable of solving the two major problems to which its existence has given rise: the problem of the proletariat and the

Poor countries are chasing behind rich ones, and poor people are just steps behind, each on independent roads, right? Jason Hickel proves how wrong and misleading this narrative is. From the history and consequences of colonialism to the military interventions throughout multiple poor countries, to the financial world structures built to prevent the autonomy and