1848+: Last and First Men

From The Unrepentant Marxist, Evolutionary Psychology and Art

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Volume 56, Number 9 · May 28, 2009
Why Darwin?
By Richard C. Lewontin
Darwin’s Origin of Species: A Biography
by Janet Browne
Grove, 174 pp., $13.00 (paper)
The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin, annotated by James T. Costa
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 537 pp., $35.00
Why Evolution Is True
by Jerry A. [...]

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Monthly Review May 2009
Why Socialism?
by Albert Einstein
This essay was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949).
Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.

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The ‘New GM’: Layoffs, Factory Closings, Offshoring
Nothing about the old way of doing business made sense, and it made a wreck of GM. After decades of closing factories, laying off workers and shifting production overseas, the company now finds itself with $172.8 billion in debt.
It would make sense to change course, radically.
But [...]

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