A Critique of the Critique of the Administrative State
Lately, there’s a desire on both the left and the right to repeal the 20th century, to repudiate the bureaucratic administrators.
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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…