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.…
Tag: Politics
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…
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…
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…
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…