Socialism and Liberalism: A Path Towards Estrangement’s End
Thinkers in both “camps” have not only challenged the underlying idea of the split but created theory that unified both liberal and socialist principles.
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The Last Enemy Is Death: Prophetic Visions, AI Slop, and How the Politics of Immortality Could Shape Our Future
How mystics and transhumanists force the dead to speak on behalf of their politics.
All In Our Heads: On Losing Our Democracy and Life Beyond Our Imaginations
Our language has to meet the moment, and we have to be relentless about dispelling the fiction MAGA is selling.
War Fighters and the Enemy Within: Trump, Hegseth, and the Assault on the American People
Trump and Hegseth are cultivating a military that sees liberals and minorities as enemies to be fought and is willing to follow orders to do so.
Charlie Kirk, Martyrdom, and America’s Authoritarian Apostles
The entanglement of fascist politics and Christian imagery is not new, and it is dangerously powerful.
MAGA Is Revising the Past to Create the Future They Want
They are aiming to build the future they want by rewriting history.
Yes, It’s the Guns. It’s Also the Phones.
Life online is corroding the virtues that make liberal democratic life tenable.
Neon Liberalism #42: The Spectacle of Cruelty
Join Samantha and guest Alan Elrod, president and CEO of the Pulaski Institution, as they talk about how the spectacle
Let It Burn: What an Immigration Raid on Washington Firefighters Can Teach Us About MAGA Fascism
MAGA is not merely rule by the worst but an active assault on virtue wherever it exists.
Degenerate Nation: RFK Jr’s Far-Right Disease Prevention
RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda is of a piece with Trump's nativist, Darwinian politics.
Adoption, Belonging, and the Question of Citizenship
Adoptees are proof of the cruelty and carelessness at the heart of Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship.
Scott Jennings in the Hyperreal and the Myth of the Escape Hatch
Jennings is like a simulation of a Trump enabler.
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.