In Materialist, Lucy (Dakota Johnson) is an elite (as in she charges $50,000) matchmaker in Manhattan. She’s great at finding partners for her demanding clients — there’s the guy who doesn’t want ...

For the past decade or so, Frances has spent thousands of dollars a week on clothes, shoes, home accessories, jewelry, and furniture. Pleasure with possessions remains integral to her sense of self: ...

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A book that views a noted saint and theologian of the Catholic Church as--a materialist? It may sound counterintuitive, but British born Yale professor of historical theology Denys Turner makes his ...

For Marx, materialism was about acknowledging the way the real world impacts on people's lives, and acknowledging their ability to come together to change society. THE WORD "idealism" is usually used ...

An introduction to historical materialism. A basic outline of the materialist conception of history, examining questions such as Marx and determinism and what he saw as the fundamental motor of ...

Regular readers know that I’m enamored, in a bittersweet way, with the novels of Michel Houellebecq. Bittersweet, because Houellebecq’s novels are extraordinarily bleak, but they are also ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a former professor of economics and senior adviser at the Bank of England. Today’s Economics ...

I may not be the first to have observed this, but it seems to me that many materialists are working with at least one fundamental dogma in tow: anything is more probable than God. Two observations ...