How The Light Gets In Festival
2018 Festival Programme Sat 22nd September Sun 23rd September Philosophers appearing who are part of the 3:AM Magazine’s End Times series: Markus Gabriel who broods on why the world doesn’t exist and never stops wondering about Kant, existence, pluralism, fields of sense, Huw Price, about why he isn’t po-mo, nor a Meinongian, about why unicorns exist, […]
Why Chomsky’s Wrong to Think of Russian Influence On US Elections as Small Beer
The greatness and also the besetting sin of intellectuals is that they try to think about everything, not merely about something. If all you are doing is thinking, then of course the one is as easy as the other. But when it comes to political action, for most of us it is all we can manage to do just something — to be a pebble or a grain of sand. The trick, if you are intellectually inclined, is not to make the mistake of imagining that arguing in grand terms about everything is any sort of substitute for actually doing something.
Robert Paul Wolff takes issue with political friend Noam Chomsky.