Max Horkheimer and Critical Theory

Karl Marx wrote: “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.” German philosopher Max Horkheimer took Marx’s words to heart and set out to change it. Horkheimer was born in the old imperial Germany in...

Antonio Gramsci (Part 2)

In the early 20th century, Antonio Gramsci noted that the West simply was not “buying” Marxism. When World War 1 erupted the proletariat did not rise up and overthrow their oppressors in the industrialized West. (They did to some degree in the much-less...

Antonio Gramsci (Part 1)

His name is probably not a household name in America today, but legions throughout our society are marching to his ideas and carrying out his designs in virtually every aspect of American culture. You need to know who he was, what he believed, and how his thoughts are...

Irena Sendler

How could one person save 2,500 children from extermination camps? One determined woman, Irena Sendler of Poland, did just that. She was only 4 feet, 11 inches tall. Yet during the early years of Nazi occupation of Poland she risked her life again and again, going...

The Homemaker and the Pastor

In 1943 the German National Socialists that occupied the Netherlands instituted a draft to scoop up as many able-bodied young men as possible, so that they could be carted off as slave-laborers for the German war machine. Thousands of Dutch men and boys went into...