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.…
Tag: Politics
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…
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…
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…