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 …
Is Politics Impossible if Everyone is a Narcissist?
Benjamin Studebaker discusses his essay for the Platypus Review entitled: "Beyond Bonapartism: Breaking statephobic thought taboos." Doug was triggere…
Presidents, the Rule of Law, & the State of Exception
The Supreme Court’s immunity ruling is not a change of policy, but an acknowledgment of a dark reality. “The court effectively creates a law-free zone…
Christopher Lasch and the Capitalist Realism of the Progressives
Originally Published, November 13, 2020:
In Christopher Lasch's book "The Agony of the American Left" he claimed that early 20th-century "progressivi…