Deepening the Void
The ruling class has found that “externalizing” their decision making to transnational organizations of various sorts can be a way to evade accountability. It is also a contradictory and self-undermining mode of governance.
George Hoare
Idiocracy, but Sadder
We are more educated and informed than any previous generation, but we’re still becoming more idiotic.
The Hangover and Life as a Commodity
We have a common and stark expression of what it might feel like to be a commodity, and to have our past dominate our present: a really, really bad hangover.
The Age of Technopopulism?
According to Chris Bickerton and Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, the “populism v. technocracy” dichotomy does not help us make sense of contemporary political reality. Indeed, it is their paradoxical fusion—technopopulism—that underlies all democratic politics today.
After Left Populism, Part Two: Pro-Worker Conservatism in the UK
The Tories are reorganizing around an anti-woke, pro-worker, and pro-democracy branding. Unlike other instances of pro-worker conservativism, it could be highly successful.
Moral Minoritarianism from the Ashes of Left Populism
From its initial task of rethinking mobilization for an age of demobilization, the aim of the remaining Left populists will be to manage mobilization in an age of potential remobilization.