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May 24, 2011evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, g.a. cohen, Jonathan Gottschall, the rape of troy

Jonathan Gottschall’s The Rape of Troy

I had the good fortune to meet Jonathan Gottschall at a recent conference. This guy is young, brilliant and so self-effacing – but I’m hardly the only one to recognize this – see the write-up in The New York Times. His talent for deploying an another discipline in the service of another reminds me a…

August 5, 2009G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, g.a. cohen, gerald cohen, gerry cohen, Marx

Jerry Cohen dead

The formidable mind that is Jerry Cohen is no longer. I have his latest Rescuing Justice and Equality on the back-burner and am now more than ever motivated to get to it. GEM de Ste Croix tried valiantly to apply Jerry’s seminal Karl Marx’s Theory of History: A Defence to his brilliant The Class Struggle in…