Gender egalitarianism made us human: A response to David Graeber & David Wengrow's 'How to change the course of human history' - by Camilla Power In an ambitious recent article in Eurozine David Graeber and David Wengrow try to…
Goldsmith, Marie: her life and thought Article about Marie Goldsmith/Isidine/Korn that teases out her influence on Peter Kropotkin's ideas, as well as looking at her scientific career…
Chomsky and the evolution of language Noam Chomsky recently appeared on the Skeptically Speaking podcast to discuss the evolution of language. This got me thinking about the…
Mutual aid and the foraging mode of thought: Re-reading Kropotkin on the Khoisan - Alan Barnard This paper utilizes Kropotkin's notion of ‘mutual aid’ and examines specifically…
Primitive communism and women's role in its emergence How did human evolution give rise to a species whose very survival is based on mutual confidence and…
A Review of Jared Diamond's 'The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?'
On human nature Arguments I see time and time again against left-wing politics include “human nature will get in the way” or “it ignores human nature”. Recently I’ve even seen this argument trotted out by…
'How Noam Chomsky’s World Works', by David Hawkes Noam Chomsky's political writings are extremely useful for any understanding of the crimes of US imperialism. But his scientific work, whose…
Engels was Right: Early Human Kinship was Matrilineal The earliest human institution was not the nuclear family. The latest research now indicates that it…
Science reading group: 'Ever Since Darwin' Kickstarting a discussion on Stephen Jay Gould's first popular book form the late 70s, Ever Since Darwin.
Noam Chomsky: Politics or Science? For over fifty years, Noam Chomsky has been exposing the crimes of the United States military across the world. Less well known is the fact that…
Kropotkin and the scientific community in England in the 1870s and 80s A short post on a small act of solidarity from a Nature editor in the 1870s.
