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emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’,

As uncertainty and precarity become the new normal, so governmental regimes have shifted their focus from how to secure us to how to make us resilient. Security, and the longing for it, have become a kind of pathology. We are no longer to expect or seek certainty but rather to embrace and accept challenge and danger, a state of perpetual emergency…

Ce qui a changé aujourd’hui, monsieur Léger, c’est que le clivage droite-gauche est complètement dépassé. Le clivage, c’est entre ceux qui défendent le peuple et ceux qui l’ignorent, entre ceux qui aiment la France et ceux qui la mettent en danger. Entre ceux qui veulent résister à l’invasion et à la disparition de notre culture et ceux qui s’y rés

That Third Rider has indeed come to threaten and repress, as Kolnai feared, all “essential opposition” to Autonomous Man, the human being defined by his desire to emancipate himself from the “alien powers” (as Marx called them) that subjugate Man. Included in these powers are all natural, transcendent, and inherited limits to human will.

Prior to Trump, the hegemonic bloc that dominated American politics was progressive neoliberalism. That may sound like an oxymoron, but it was a real and powerful alliance of two unlikely bedfellows: on the one hand, mainstream liberal currents of the new social movements (feminism, antiracism, multiculturalism, environmentalism, and LGBTQ+ rights)

They justify military humanism ‘in the name of protecting freedom, human rights and democracy even when it is pursued unilaterally by a self-appointed imperialist power’ such as the US.38 More broadly, it is hard not to conclude with Chandler that ‘the roots of today’s human rights-based humanitarianism lie in the growing consensus of support for W

Les conservateurs britanniques comme les libéraux de la Commission avaient oublié et renié l’enseignement de leur père commun, Disraeli : « Je préfère la liberté dont nous jouissons au libéralisme qu’ils promettent et préfère aux droits de l’homme les droits des Anglais. »