Sam Liebeskind

“A market had opened up for illiberal transgressions, no matter how banal and empty. According to Marx, cultural inertia accelerated this development. “We see how this cultural stagnation has political consequences,” he writes, adding that the MAGA movement’s “rejection of liberal values” had been taking shape in a reactionary subculture that

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Proactive Solutions to Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence

there’s a specific kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from doing too much, but from thinking too much while doing very little.

I think that all the clamor around the need for new institutions has been right, but the premise of actually building new institutions has proven nearly impossible to fulfill. Institutions are definitionally things that are legally and culturally entrenched, with processes that are economically and culturally load-bearing. You can’t “just” make new... See more