Free-Standing Sculptures with Weight and Meaning: A Conversation with David Shields
I love dialogic books and gestures: from Socrates and Plato in The Republic to Rob Bryon and Steve Coogan in The Trip. I’ve read as many of these bo…
Icons, Political Aesthetics, the Drag Last Supper, and Trump’s Fist
July 2024 brought us inescapable examples of the renewed power of pictures. Images of Trump rising up, fist raised, on the 13th after being shot…
The Anti-communist Discourse
Anti-communism pretends that the status quo is infinite (N), that it is also continuously identical, and each new leftist affront to the status quo it…
A Review of The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies by Auron Macintyre
Introduction It’s been said that fascism was a 20th century movement of the lesser intelligentsia. If that is the case the 21st recuperation of…
Political Virtues: Liberalism Versus Tribalism
“Two visions of America” are locked in a “vicious, bloody, and unending” fight writes Celeste Marcus1. In her view liberalism and tribalism ceaselessly struggle “for…
A Castrating Moment for Trump’s Death-Driven Campaign
The uniting enjoyment of Trump supporters is derived from their perception of being repressed by an external parasitic force, through which their coll…