Two is Too Many
A response to Jeremy Cohan and Benjamin Serby’s “The Two Souls of Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man .”
Pathologies of the Left
The Trouble with “Defund”
There is nothing progressive about austerity.
The Covid Blackmail
Benjamin Bratton’s The Revenge of the Real develops the “temporary” state of emergency of (failed) pandemic governance into a justification of governing society on that basis indefinitely. It’s a deeply anti-social vision of society.
The Record Has Shown
A review of Sarah Schulman’s new oral history, Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993.
Let’s Not Get Sentimental
Hate is an element of political organizing we are encouraged to disavow. But liberal sentimentality only leads to repetitive acting-out of the dynamics of dehumanization.
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.
Unpacking the Left's Cultural Baggage
Why the Left’s embrace of cultural liberalism hurts our electoral ambitions.