Plato’s allegory of the cave
3,629 words
Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)
Grégoire Canlorbe: It is not uncommon to claim the self-assertive longing for “prestige,” “respect,” and “fame” is fully intelligible within the framework of the selfish-gene theory, Read more …
for some time, as it would mean breaking the first two rules of Fight Club. 
Reflections on the Supremacy of the West:
A Critique of Ricardo Duchesne & Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson
7,568 words
In 2011 there appeared two major scholarly works that attempted to investigate the sources of Western supremacy in the modern world, especially in view of the recent rise of China as a potential threat to this supremacy. These are the Puerto Rican-Canadian social historian Ricardo Duchesne’s The Uniqueness of Western Civilization[1] and the British economic historian Niall Ferguson’s Civilization: The West and the Rest.[2] Read more …