"An initial first impression is that this (COVID-19) is significantly milder than SARS, so that's reassuring. On the o…"

"Science is the art of understanding nature."

"...Even in the most intimate forms of writing, people still followed established conventions and wrote what they felt…"

"Ideas do not have force outside specific social contexts. The same ideas may have enormous force in one context and l…"

"Historical capitalism is not a system in which state power is abolished or in which states never interfere with marke…"

"National societies (both their states and their nations) have emerged over the last few centuries to become the stron…"

"Thirty years ago, Giovanni Arrighi, Terence Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein pointed out that revolutionaries rarely …"

"A resistance to formal organization is common among the Left, as we have seen not only in the but also in phenomena l…"

"...These are exciting times. Another World Revolution is happening. The Global Right and the Global Left are once aga…"

"I shall adopt the convention by which particular propositions are taken as implying the existence of their subjects, …"