It begins one evening with a knock on the front door of an ordinary house in Dublin. Eilish Stack lives there with her husband, Larry, and their four children.   Sean Sheehan   He is a trade union official for a teachers’ union and happens to be out when two […]

The two authors of “Politically red” read Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Walter Benjamin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Fredric Jameson, and others as chapters in the history of class struggle. Their book is compelling, written with precision and passion.   Sean Sheehan   Marx is read for the way he […]

“Christian Atheism” covers a lot of fascinating ground and this is just an attempt to explain what Žižek means by Christian atheism. He distinguishes Christianity as an emancipatory event, describing it as a decentring of the One-God, separating God-the-Father from Christ.   Sean Sheehan   His theological starting point is […]

A woman, photographed from behind, is moving forward with intent through rocky terrain towards open, inhospitable land. Ahead of her lies the outline of bare-looking, small mountains.   Sean Sheehan   Her long dark hair hangs down loosely to below the waist and her wide skirt may be white but […]