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…
Tag: Politics
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…
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 …
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…
The Despair of Freedom
With a particularly pronounced authoritarian gesture, Milei advocates for a concept of freedom that starts from the basic premise of an atomized indiv…