Stan Persky

Stan Persky teaches philosophy at Capilano University in North Vancouver, British Columbia. He’s the author of many books, including Buddy’s: Meditations on Desire and Reading the 21st Century: Books of the Decade, 2000-2009 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011). His most recent book is Post-Communist Stories: About Cities, Politics, Desires (Cormorant, 2014).

The Ins and Outs of Europe’s Deep Establishment

Stan Persky looks at Yanis Varoufakis's "Adults in the Room," the memoir of Varoufakis's brief tenure as Greece’s minister of finance in 2015....

STAN PERSKY

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

AROUND THE WORLD

POLITICS

MEMOIR & ESSAY

Say Something: Chomsky on Language

A review of a collection of Noam Chomsky’s lectures on language....

STAN PERSKY

NONFICTION

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The Young and the Restless, and Laura Kipnis

Kipnis, a humorous feminist and feminist humorist, employs irony, sarcasm, satire, and a general sense of levity in her discussions of gender, feminism, and sexuality....

STAN PERSKY

GENDER & SEXUALITY