On becoming less left-wing (Part 1)
On the cultural pendulum swing and feminine black/white thinking
I write the most about leftist culture because I want to understand how we got here. The chain of causation could stretch back to the founding of America, but instead, I’ve been obsessed with the past 30 years. I don’t agree with most of what Trump is doing. I am worried, but I think h
... See moreIt seems that the values divide underpinning the opposition between liberalism and authoritarianism – with populism somewhere on the spectrum – rules out any real prospect for a politics of the good life. In times of ‘culture wars’ and political polarization, appeals to a sphere of shared meaning seem to ring hollow.
Adrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal
The Disillusioned of the Earth
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