Per its introduction, Paul Kengor’s new book, The Devil and Karl Marx, “deals with the grim, disturbing, militant atheism and intense anti-religious elements of Marx and other founders and ...

One of the most common phrases to be heard from those on “the left” is the assertion that someone or some public policy is or is not on “the right side of history.” It has almost become a mantra by ...

In a recent essay in The Nation, Wendy Brown, a political theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., contends that Karl Marx’s Capital is unrivaled in its explanatory power ...

Marx’s view of history powerfully shaped how we think about time and power, but it’s not the Bible’s view. Each outlandish story contributes to a broader ethos of conspiracism: a cynical and fearful ...

Political economy unfolds as a social fact inside human history. Marx’s Critique of Political Economy as a discipline has also unfolded inside that history. However, his study of history as a ...