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…
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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…
Decolonizing a Fake Caliphate
Indigeneity is a Neoconservative Ideology “Yemen became two Yemens, Lebanon became four and there will be more!” “Why?!” “For us to have more votes at…
Say Goodbye, Wave Hello to Left Populism?
A review of If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins The Populist Moment: The Left After the Great…