I was working on a powerpoint presentation on the history of the Greek Revolution and came across the Memoirs of John Makriyiannis. This was an important fighter and leader who sacrificed everything ...

We’ve all heard that “knowledge is power,” often to the point where it seems like a cliche. While this phrase is originally attributed to the philosopher Francis Bacon, it has been repeated by many ...

Anthropoligist and anarchist David Graeber provides an overview of the arguments he puts forward in his work Debt: The First 5000 years.

This week marks the three year anniversary of the Theory of Knowledge Blog. I have made almost 100 posts on a wide variety of different topics and have arranged them below around major themes. (The ...

This blog series maps out the key elements of human knowledge to help folks make better sense of the world. The prior post (Part 2) introduced epistemology and shared Ken Wilber’s quadrant model. Here ...