What is the Pre-Political?
For decades, it has been fashionable to blur the line between what is political and what is not. This hasn’t been a good thing for either side.
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Mirroring and Pseudo-Empathy
AI chatbots create the fantasy of the always available, understanding Other. Such pseudotherapy inhibits subjective growth by undermining our abilities to tolerate frustration and promotes regressive, infantile ways of relating to others.
The Centrist Blackmail No Longer Works
On September 8th, François Bayrou became the first Prime Minister to have lost a confidence vote during the Fifth Republic. His demise is a clear indication that the centrist project lacks the imagination to grapple with the current political moment.
How American Tech Made China an Economic Superpower
Apple in China tells the incredible story of China’s industrial development through the lens of America’s most iconic tech giant.
Intel, Trump, and the Future of Bidenomics
Trump just announced a partial nationalization of one of America’s biggest tech giants. This is not contrary to Biden-era industrial policy but an extension of it, as well as an opportunity for greater public control over private capital.
The Argument Is Already Lost
The splashy new liberal rag says there is no war on workers and doubles down on open borders. Future President Steve Bannon must be thrilled.
Freedom in the Abstract
Alyssa Battistoni’s ‘Free Gifts’ sets itself the ambitious goal of demonstrating how capitalism’s distortions of our relationship to nature imposes limitations on human freedom. But without a constructive vision or concrete political prescriptions, that freedom remains rather abstract.
