by Jane Instance
During my time in highschool, I regarded Karl Marx, co-author of “The Communist Manifesto” as a failed economic theorist whose grand idea of a Western revolution where the workers would seize control of the means of production somehow failed to come about. To my mind, Communism brought nothing but economic ruin to those […]

by Jane Instance
The more feminist literature I read, the more profound becomes my conviction that women will never enjoy their unique dignity and equality as long as feminism exists.
Wait a minute! That’s a pretty strong statement to make. Surely we can keep a little bit of feminism? Just keep the good parts which talk about […]

The Viennese psychiatrist, Viktor Frankel once observed that man has an infinite capacity to deceive himself. This three time escapee from Hitler’s concentration camps has written eloquently how hard it is for people to face and accept the truth – to say nothing of practicing it. This must be harder if one has lived, acted, […]