Wright's Writing

Staughton Lynd's Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism (1968) is a fantastic exploration of the ideological offshoots and effects...

[Notes from my journal.] I'm reading Paulo Freire’s famous little book The Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970), which is apparently...

[Some notes I took a while ago. They may be kind of obvious, but I think it’s interesting to adopt something like Hegel’s perspective on...

L’enfer, c’est les autres?— Contrary to what Sartre pessimistically thought, if hell exists, it is not other people. It is the absence of...

[From an old journal entry.] Noam Chomsky is my intellectual conscience. I think about him every day, multiple times a day. He helps...

From Peter Marin: “Kant called the realm of [human] connection the kingdom of ends. Erich Gutkind’s name for it was the absolute...

It’s a cliché but it’s worth repeating: one cause of modern loneliness is the attitude of treating people as means to an end, namely...

(This is the sequel to the blog post "From the Greeks to the Enlightenment." From my book Finding Our Compass.) Nietzsche ridiculed the...

[A book excerpt.] The best way to think about the human task of living is that it should be, as Nietzsche said, a continual journey of...

No reasonable person would deny that pop culture is a vulgar, artificial, debased and debasing thing. Does this mean that “the...

In the footnotes to chapter 6 of Chomsky’s Understanding Power are these illuminating remarks: “[Thomas] Jefferson did not support...

The elite has the money, but the workers have the dignity. The elite consumes; the workers produce. Future ages always forget the past...