Who’s Afraid of Post-Liberalism?
When Does a ‘Turn’ Become a ‘Post’? Remember the rise of postmodernism in the social sciences? I am old enough to remember living through it.…
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What is Going On with Cornel West’s Presidential Campaign!? (And Why It’s a Damn Shame)
The past seven months have viscerally demonstrated the palpable, dangerous authoritarianism of the “harm-reduction,” “adult-in-the-room,” tech…
Art and Our Cult of the Self
A cult of the self shapes much of our lives. Its cardinal conviction is that the self is sacred. Via its often stealthy influence, self-worship…
Choose Your Collective Personhoods
A plausible way to sort political positions into a set of coherent categories is by asking whether they recognize collective agents, and if so, which.…
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…