The Psychiatric Manufacturing of Identity
On the political circumstances behind rigid, brittle identity constructions.
Neoliberalism
Dry Capitalism
The new culture of sobriety is deeply complementary to the joyless, achievement-oriented, toxic positivity of the neoliberal age.
There is No Red Pill
The red pill/blue pill metaphor has survived the last two decades, which should be strange: the choice it describes no longer exists.
What is Limbic Capitalism?
An interview with historian David Courtwright on his new book, The Age of Addiction.
Inside the Mind of the Professional-Managerial Class, Part Four: Notes on the Sex Recession
Can one claim to practice analytic therapy when sexuality no longer threatens the smooth functioning of the rational ego?
No Homers Club
Enough about what people in the present think of the Odyssey. What does the Odyssey think about us?
The Triumph of American Idealism
In worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, protestors are fantasizing their participation in America's problems, and in the process ignoring their own.