Covid-19 and the Left: A Postmortem
Instead, as the authors of this book show, the PMC-Left vacated to the populist right the terrain of understanding the authoritarian war on the poor a…
Naked Neo-Nazis and Well-Dressed Alt-Fascists: A History—and Warning
Dystopian visions of a future America struggling against authoritarian elements, if not fascistic forces have fascinated seers for years. Novels and films such as Civil…
Review: Immediacy or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Immediacy, a feature of contemporary life associated with the use of social networks and smartphones, has become increasingly dominant.
The Alternative to Genocide
The alternative to extermination is slavery or labor. The only reason for conquerors not to kill the defeated is to put them to work -- to make them u…
Tripping and Politics
It screams regression too: you are prompted to disregard the difference between yourself and the product of an artist's work. you become identical wit…
The Dark Origins of Optimism and its Current Cheerful Evils
A seductive but deceptively skewed school of thought has enchanted our elite. It teaches that “optimism” is essential to solving society’s problems (it comes in…