The Best of Liberalism Points to Socialism
At its best, liberalism points beyond itself to an overcoming of capitalism. It also explicitly upholds certain moral ideals that it would be a mistake for socialists to renounce.
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Socialism is not Liberal Moralism on Steroids
Socialists don’t need to appeal to morality and justice. Unlike liberals and conservatives, they can point out how the world works, and how our political imagination is constrained as a result.
A Discount in Honor of Fathers
Damage celebrates fathers and Father's Day with a discount offer.
Public Safety is a Social Good, and Simple Binaries Aren’t Helping Us Achieve It
The best means to mitigate the brutality of police and prisons in the United States is to achieve universal, social democratic reforms that would help abolish the ghetto. But there are more specific criticisms of the carceral state to be made in the meantime.
Fool Me Twice
The shamed retreat into themselves, but the guilty can take responsibility for their actions. A Review of Frédéric Gros’s A Philosophy of Shame.
Ending the Spectacle of Infantilism
The youth mental health crisis speaks to the abnegation of responsibility among adults—liberals and leftists foremost. Unmediated expressions of distress in spectacle-oriented activities must be rejected for a mature, radical politics.
Reification, Resentment, and the Enduring Appeal of Right-Wing Rhetoric
A Review of Marxist Modernism by Gillian Rose
