Should we still be venerating works by Plato, Shakespeare, Woolf, and company as “great books”? Should we still be reading them at all? Or should we simply abandon the "Western canon"? These are the questions we're asking in this week's show.
Do we have a duty to help developing nations escape poverty? Or does foreign aid do more harm than good? What is the best way to end global poverty? These are some of the questions we’ll be in asking in this week’s show on foreign aid.
Frantz Fanon was quite a provocative fellow. In his most influential work, The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon says that “For the colonized, life can only materialize from the rotting cadaver of the colonist.”
最近出版的《第三世界季刊》将乔姆斯基标榜为编辑委员会成员，但由于编辑们受到死亡威胁，该杂志的编辑们也撤回了布鲁斯·吉利的《殖民主义的理由》。但是杂志撤回这篇文章是正确的吗?
我们常常认为爱是一种自然而有力的东西——一种我们自发体验到的神秘感觉，深藏在我们本质自我的深处。但我们的爱，以及我们爱的能力，可能与我们的社会关系比我们所承认的要大得多。