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The trouble with the Enlightenment By: Ollie Cussen Source:https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/the-enlightenment-and-why-it-still-matters-anthony-pagden-review?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=The+Long+Read+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=264470&subid=17780854&CMP=longread_collection Like all good liberal intellectuals of the last century, Saul Bellow’s Moses Herzog spent

Makarand R Paranjape Source: http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/essay/a-critical-conspiracy-called-post-colonialism TODAY, MOST OBSERVERS would say that post-colonialism is more dead than alive. Yet, by the very logic of academic canonisation and continuity, it continues to be ‘Wanted’. It enjoyed its heyday for over two decades after the publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism (

BY Maria Popova Link: https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/02/08/zadie-smith-feel-free-optimism-and-despair/ For original, click the link above “Progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive.” “All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up,” John Steinbeck wrote to his best

Frantz Fanon  By:  Jairus Banaji (copy from Facebook) Frantz Fanon (1925–1961), Martinique-born psychiatrist, writer and political militant who became part of Algeria’s struggle for independence in 1954. To Fanon the struggle for Algeria’s independence from French rule had to be simultaneously ‘national, revolutionary and social’. Fanon, diagnosed with leukaemia by the start of 1961,