La Diplo 2018-2021

Temas pri Le Monde diplomatique en Esperanto. Mi kontrolis la esperantajn numerojn de 2018 tra 2021 kaj listigas ĉi tie artikolojn pri kulturaj, filozofiaj, ideologiaj, k.s. aferoj ne efemeraj,

Ĉu la ideoj sufiĉas por ŝanĝi la mondon? (Razmig KEUCHEYAN) marto 2018

Karlo Markso kaj la ekspluatado de la naturo (John Bellamy FOSTER) junio 2018

La revolucio laŭ Marc Chagall (Lionel RICHARD) julio 2018

Kion celas la mito de transhumanismo? (Charles PERRAGIN kaj Guillaume RENOUARD) aŭgusto 2018

Klasikuloj por la popolo (Anthony GLINOER) oktobro 2018 : Pri “Little Blue Books” ktp. & popolklerigo

Laŭ la spuroj de George Orwell (Gwenaëlle LENOIR) januaro 2019 : Pri Orwell & Wigan Pier

Laŭdo al la kosmopolitismo (Tom STROHSCHNEIDER) aprilo 2019

La kanibala maldekstro − universitata simptomaro (Rick FANTASIA) aŭgusto 2019 : Pri identec-politiko

La rifuzo de Sartro [Jean-Paul Sartre] (Anne MATHIEU) aprilo 2020

La revmondo de la hobitoj (Evelyne PIEILLER) junio 2020 : Pri J.R.R. Tolkien

Kakistokratio (Ibrahim WARDE) junio 2020 : Pri Alfred Jarry, Chaplin, Ionesco, k.a.

La intelekta burĝaro, hereda elito (Pierre RIMBERT) aŭgusto 2020 : Pri meritokratio

Simmel kaj la “niatempa dio” (Nidal TAÏBI) aŭgusto 2020 : Pri Georg Simmel

La Panteonon oni eniras, de ĝi oni eliras (Alain GARRIGOU) novembro 2021 : Pri enpanteonigo de Josephine Baker

Ĉe la rasradikoj (Barbara J. FIELDS, Karen E. FIELDS) decembro 2021: Pri Racecraft (Raskonstruado)

Mario Pei: Wanted: A World Language

I have documented Mario Pei's contribution to interlinguistics (i.e. the field of study of the creation and adoption of a universal or international auxiliary language) in English and Esperanto.  Here is another noteworthy contribution to the popularization and advocacy of the idea:

Wanted: A World Language by Mario Pei

Pei's 1969 pamphlet is a condensed argument for the adoption of an international auxiliary language, outlining the history of the idea and the relevant projects, the various options and arguments pro and con, with an exposition of Esperanto, reading list, and directory.

Pei in his 1958 book One Language for the World treated this topic extensively and most comprehensively for the first time in English at least since A Planned Auxiliary Language by Henry Jacob (1947, following Jacob's 1946 On the Choice of a Common Language).

For more on this topic see my web pages:

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography

For an historical overview of the field with links to notable texts see:

International Auxiliary Languages

Note that my web page of Pei's pamphlet contains the corrected, current links to Pei's other works online.

One must not get the impression that Pei was a respected linguist. He was not. He was also a crank conservative, but at least not of the paranoid variety that rejected any manifestation of internationalism. This is probably a result of having to think in international terms in the fight against the Axis powers in World War II. Pei can at least be credited as a popularizer of languages, mutilingualism, and early 20th century linguistics, and as a leading popularizer and advocate of the quest for a universal language.