The Need for a Socialist Morality
Ignoring moral debates has led the Left to implicitly privilege being authentic over being good. This is a conceptual and moral mistake, but it is also a severe political limitation as well.
Liberalism
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.
America is Not Where Marxism Goes to Die
A new history dismantles the conventional wisdom—and implicit premise of much pessimistic critical theory—that Marx’s ideas never gained ground in America.
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.
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.
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.
Unpacking the Left's Cultural Baggage
Why the Left’s embrace of cultural liberalism hurts our electoral ambitions.
