Omphaloskepsis

Dimitrios Halikias' amateur ruminations on philosophy, politics, and history. "How small of all that human hearts endure, that part which laws or kings can cause or cure" - Samuel Johnson. Contact me at dhalikias@princeton.edu

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Sunday, December 11, 2022

Marx on Free Speech and Commerce

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In the news these days is another case involving a Christian business that refuses to provide services for a same-sex wedding. The core issu...

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Schmitt and Foucault on Political Theology

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I have been struck in recent months by some similarities between Schmitt and Foucault. This post sketches one such similarity: The parallel ...

Saturday, March 5, 2022

Sismondi and Third-Way Economics

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I recently read some Simonde de Sismondi, previously known to me only from Marx’s vitriolic attacks. The “Communist Manifesto,” for example...

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Thoughts on Weber's 1895 "The Nation State and Economic Policy"

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I recently had occasion to re-read Max Weber’s 1895 inaugural lecture on “The Nation State and Economic Policy” (found in the Cambridge edit...

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Lukacs and Tocqueville on Democratic v. Aristocratic History

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The central tension of Marxist history is summed up in a famous passage from the opening lines of the 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte : “Me...

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