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Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost
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The Haidt-Lukianoff thesis about “wokeness” was always based on flawed assumptions so it’s not surprising to see Haidt essentially repudiating parts of his critique. The problem was taking what was
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I started getting a real sense around 10-12 years ago that the people entering humanities graduate programmes increasingly weren’t doing so out of affinity for the subject, but simply because
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A largely unacknowledged context for the mid-2020 COVID passion play on the liberal left was that all the energy formerly invested in open borders/global citizen sentiment had to go somewhere
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A lot of people seem baffled about what the Successor Ideology offers its adherents. If it’s a secular religion, where’s its concept of redemption? Its form of deliverance? Its version
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The basic problem, as I see it, with Pluckrose, Lindsay, et al. on what they call "wokery" is that they mistakenly attribute all the power to Critical Theory itself, rather
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Watching Solaris (1972) and Marjorie Prime (2017) recently really brought home to me how resigned, defeated, and dystopian our collective imaginations have become when we think about future technologies. Marjorie
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The new "anti-imperialist imperialism" coming out of the US was something I noticed first in bookshop displays. The kinds of politics sections in London bookshops where you'd have found Streeck
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There is a weird disjunction between the radical liberal/“left” moral panic over slurs in 2019/20 vs. rad-libs’ and “leftists”’ willingness to use those same slurs to denigrate minorities who step
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