John Gray is the Lady Gaga of Political Philosophy
Review of The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism by John Gray John Gray is the Lady Gaga of political philosophy going through more phases than…
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Cats, Politics, and the Despair of Human Existence
But this is also where the emancipatory potential of domestic cats/animals lies: They remind humans that they are beings of civilization - and that th…
The Left and Its Meaning
The Left’s adherence to principles makes it politically dogmatic and inflexible. This is the entry point of its puritanism. Principles, especially t…
Against Colorblindness
As Dostoyevsky famously quipped, “beauty will save the world.” Consequently, a world bereft of substantial aesthetic underpinnings is beyond salva…
Our Deformed Professional Class
“All professionals are deformed,” begins a quip by acclaimed literary critic Merve Emre. She’s correct, but that insight applies in a larger sense. In her…
The Left Cannot Make Use of the Gaza War
Ethnic cleansing reifies ethnicity and inflicts devastation on real human beings in the name of a bogus right-wing conceptual scheme. It is despicable…