The Trouble with “Defund”
There is nothing progressive about austerity.
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Class Politics and Status Politics
An excerpt from a classic text on the rise of Prohibition distinguishing class politics from the symbolic, expressive movements of status politics.
The Logic of Empire: Blowback and the Brutishness of American Foreign Policy
<em>Blowback</em> Season Two is a welcome advance on Season One, but the show might have outgrown its title.
The Covid Blackmail
Benjamin Bratton’s <em>The Revenge of the Real</em> develops the “temporary” state of emergency of (failed) pandemic governance into a justification of governing society on that basis indefinitely. It’s a deeply anti-social vision of society.
Why the CCC is DOA
Sunrise’s Civilian Climate Corps is a strong proposal. It’s a shame that the class struggle orientation needed to realize it is wholly absent.
Is This the Green New Deal?
A response to Adam Tooze on the dawning “post-neoliberal” era.
From 9/11 to Ted Lasso
Warm hugs of nice after the slow, torturous death of irony.
