The History of Gay Conservatism
LGBTQ voters overwhelmingly went for Harris, but the idea that gay voters are always going to be solidly blue is a myth.
Identity politics
Left Identitarianism Is Also A Mirror World
A review of Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger (Macmillan, 2023).
The Man Who Sold the World
Before Kendi’s brand of anti-racism fades into the history books, we should remember why it became popular in the first place. Kendi gave us the professional-class solution to inequality: acknowledge its existence, renounce it rhetorically, then continue on in much the same way as you did before.
Pseudo-Leviathans
John Gray believes the modern state is a new totalitarian entity promising not freedom but the much lesser good of “meaning” through security and a progressive identity. But the “new Leviathans” are much weaker than he lets on.
Not in Our Genes: Identity Politics as Liberal Ideology
Liberals increasingly want to portray the identitarian and partisan divides as natural, quasi-biological ones. The result is not simply gross misunderstanding of the present political impasse; it’s also surrender to the conditions that perpetuate it.
Class Politics and Status Politics
An excerpt from a classic text on the rise of Prohibition distinguishing class politics from the symbolic, expressive movements of status politics.
Where Do Identity Politics Come From?
Identity politics is an expression of mass political demobilization, but it is also undergirded by the power of the nonprofit sector.
