Icons, Political Aesthetics, the Drag Last Supper, and Trump’s Fist
July 2024 brought us inescapable examples of the renewed power of pictures. Images of Trump rising up, fist raised, on the 13th after being shot…
Tag: Politics
The Anti-communist Discourse
Anti-communism pretends that the status quo is infinite (N), that it is also continuously identical, and each new leftist affront to the status quo it…
Political Virtues: Liberalism Versus Tribalism
“Two visions of America” are locked in a “vicious, bloody, and unending” fight writes Celeste Marcus1. In her view liberalism and tribalism ceaselessly struggle “for…
A Castrating Moment for Trump’s Death-Driven Campaign
The uniting enjoyment of Trump supporters is derived from their perception of being repressed by an external parasitic force, through which their coll…
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.
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…