Talk Is Precious: in the Age of Communication Collapse, Jürgen Habermas’s Message Remains Vital

The left honors Paul Ehrlich BECAUSE he falsely saw humanity as a plague

Paul Ehrlich rose to fame with 1968’s “The Population Bomb,” which claimed humanity within decades would be starving to death by the billions.

Talk is precious: in the age of communication collapse, Jürgen Habermas’s message remains vital

The philosopher, who has died aged 96, was often caricatured as a consensus-seeking liberal. But his belief in the need for shared understanding had a radical underpinningDespite its canonical name, the Frankfurt School is not a school. It is, at least according to my former teacher, the critical theorist Rahel Jaeggi, a constellation. For a century, this scholarly constellation has pursued the intellectual endeavour of critique. Critique here i…