Inherent Vice: Can America Come Back From Who We’ve Become?
At the richest moment in world history, in an unparalleled time of comforts and luxuries, we have elected self-harm and self-pity.
Trump Can't Both Deport Millions and Increase the Population
No serious person believes it’s possible to both decrease and increase the US population at the same time.
Trump ‘Alarmists’ Were Right. We Should Say So.
Commentators who got it wrong wouldn’t listen, won’t learn, and can’t lead.
The Potemkin Feminism of "Sex-Based Rights"
"Sex-based rights" are a Potemkin feminism that commit us to a theory of objective sex where there is something special about your very biology that entitles you to special treatment not deserved by others.
Inheritance of Equals: A Case for Liberal Socialism
Things literally cannot go on as they have before the present democratic crisis—things have been broken and will have to be put back together somehow. Ideas that were unthinkable even a decade ago may see their chance in the sun. It is time for liberal socialism.
Neon Liberalism #23: The Porn Brain of the New Right
Content warning: rape, pedophilia, and historical atrocities. Join Samantha and guest Alan Elrod as they talk about the role of rape in conservative ideology, biopolitics as the Rosetta Stone of authoritarian reaction, and the pornographic fantasies that pervade the new right. Alan is the president and CEO of the Pulaski
Just Make Your Case and Leave Campaign Strategy to Politicians
Politicians will try to win elections whether you self-censor your principled position or not.
Half the Answer #8: What Is Personalism?
Trent and Caitlin talk with Adam Gurri, founder and editor-in-chief of Liberal Currents, about his take that the most accurate way to view the Trump presidency is as an example of “personalism.” What is personalism? What are other examples of personalist systems? What can a nation do once a personalist
Working Homeless in America
Brian Goldstone doesn’t use the abstract language of structural violence, but his story is full of landlords, bureaucrats, and politicians insulated from the pain they inflict by distance, resources, and power.
Children Are the Future: Authoritarianism, Culture War, and Making Model Citizens
MAGA’s approach to young Americans is about creating adherents and eliminating undesirables.
Palestine and "Free Speech" Hypocrisy
The right and so-called moderate center have framed trigger warnings, the deplatforming of far right speakers, and peaceful protests as urgent free speech crises, but now they downplay the actual stifling of speech and expression.
Elon Musk's Artificial God
In the vision of Musk and other lords of Silicon Valley, the purpose of AI technology is to insulate them, and only them, from any hint that they might live in a society.
The Opposition Report #1
A summary of the second Trump term to date.