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Hannah Arendt’s Ordinary Humanism

An excerpt from Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt

September 7, 2026 • by Benjamin P. Davis

I went to Nablus in May 2023. This was the time when the militant group the Lions’ Den had gained support in the city for its armed attacks against Israeli checkpoints, soldiers and settlements. As a consequence, the Israeli Occupying Forces had increased their surveillance and raids not just of ...

Socialist Humanism

Integrating Psychology into a New Progressive Politics

September 26, 2019 • by Mick Cooper

The Alternative: Towards a New Progressive Politics is, perhaps, one of the most inspiring and forward-thinking texts to come out of UK progressive politics for several years. Edited by a Green MP (Caroline Lucas), a Labour MP (Lisa Nandy), and a Liberal Democrat candidate (Chris Bowers), the book lays out a ...

‘To the Angels and the Sparrows’

A review of John Gray’s, Seven Types of Atheism

November 1, 2018 • by Alexandre Leskanich

It was incomprehensible to Pascal, who lived in horror of perpetual oblivion and staked his happiness on the immortality of the soul, that an individual could be ambivalent in respect to eternity. Such a person, ‘indifferent to the loss of their being and the peril of an eternity of wretchedness’, ...