Meritocracy Agonistes
On elite anxieties and the instrumentalization of education.
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Private, Not For You, Go Away: On Forbidden Books
Mainstream writing sucks. Oppositional writing sucks. The solution is obvious. Part Three of our review series from Sam Kriss.
Bad Air!: A Review of “We Unhappy Few” from Endnotes 5
When the present unrealizability of one’s grandiose ambitions is the misery of one’s actuality.
Abundance, Scarcity, and the Race/Class Short-Circuit
Just as black struggle is taken to stand in for working-class struggle, so too is the present enemy of black struggle—the police—taken to stand in for the capitalist class.
Inside the Mind of the Professional-Managerial Class, Part Two
Fear of a breakdown that has already happened.
Unpacking the Left's Cultural Baggage
Why the Left’s embrace of cultural liberalism hurts our electoral ambitions.
Do the Rite Thing
And learn to look at our own commonplace objects and practices, our own self-evident understanding, with different, perhaps even with other, eyes.
