Democracy’s Demigods and Political Superheroes
Treating our politicians like superheroes, or for that matter supervillains, is not a good idea. It’s hard not to notice how badly people want someone…
The Perversion of Liberty: Libertarianism and the Crisis of Argentina
In what was rumored as a state of inconsolable grief, Javier Milei ordered four lab-grown clones of Conan, the Argentinian president’s dead English Mastiff. Bearing…
On Illusions and Assassination Attempts
The magic trick works inside-out: because there is no sleight-of-hand, the audience demands for one.
The Premature Death of Noam Chomsky in Digital Discourse
Recently the digital landscape has been awash with premature obituaries for Noam Chomsky — published one moment, retracted the next — revealing a collective fixation on the theoretical “end…
Liberalism’s Failure by Fun
Liberalism can’t cope with the times. That’s the surprising position of a thinker who is not in any sense an opponent, rather he’s one of…
Now Are You Going to Start Standing Up for Yourselves?
Since the shock of the 2016 Brexit referendum itself, every election in Britian has demonstrated that we are living in a time when people are able to …