
The hatred of paradise
The Dialectic of the Enlightenment was the first in a series of post-war books that variously attacked the Cold War consensus on both sides. I’d […]
The Dialectic of the Enlightenment was the first in a series of post-war books that variously attacked the Cold War consensus on both sides. I’d […]
There is no more telling symbol of my lackadaisical – my bobo – leftism than the fact that as I write this, I am enjoying […]
The idea that the Democrats can find a way of governing with the Republicans is as dead as NATO The GOP won’t vote for impeachment […]
There is something comic about a politician standing up before God and man and free will and mouthing the phrase “no alternative”. Except in the […]
After the wonderful sweep of theory in the 70s and 80s, we seem to be condemned to live in a neoliberal dunciad, where the […]
I have grown to like the twitterterm, receipts. These are not proofs but finds – finds like a photograph of one person next to […]
In the late nineties and early aughts, I wrote for a number of magazines that never deigned to produce a paper product – they were […]
Write what you know is the advice of the writing class. Write about who you know is the mantra of the gossip column. Surely these […]
When I was in the second grade, a now dim tidelet of a memory, a weak link over the cholesterol and the neural network, […]
If things are in the saddle and ride mankind, as Emerson said, then let us imagine that things take a break every now and […]
Literature we may say is what goes on all the time history is what goes on from time to time… Gertrude Stein 1. The Oxford […]
In the American mind, the real economy is always mixed up with the moral economy. This mix produces monsters. One of the monsters is […]
Cancel culture was born on October 18, 1924, when a pamphlet was thrust upon the world entitled: A Cadaver. The subject of the pamphlet was […]
1. As a kid, I worked in my father’s ice factory. It was not a grandiose enterprise – it consisted of an outer office, an […]
There are scandals that fascinate but don’t educate. And then there are the other scandals, the ones that x-ray a social order, the ones that, […]
At some point in 2001, before the Tower fell, I flew into Los Angeles from Austin in order to interview Carol Muske-Dukes, the poet […]
There’s been a lot of news about our elite universities lately. All of its been bad. Let’s do a rundown. Tufts On January 31, 2019, […]
Burns begins her novel with an utter spoiler of a sentence that pretty much states the case: The day Somebody McSomebody put a gun to […]
The heat wave here is broken. I got up this morning, went to the boulangerie on Rambuteau, and on the way back whistled, “We’re having […]
“Who wants yesterday’s papers? Who wants yesterday’s girl?” I have always been a Beatles-over-the-Rolling-Stones type of old slag. This lyric represents the reason. How could […]
“This institutional gadget, which became the dominant force in the economy—now justly described as a market economy—then gave rise to yet another, even more extreme […]
There’s a popular literary game, which consists of predicting which writers will “endure”. Whenever the waters of clickbait grow still and old, some webzine […]
There is a form of ontological bidding that gets to something in me, some resident respect for the old fashioned, Aristotelian rules of logic. […]
Throughout the 19th and 20th century, one stumbles upon the lefthand heirs of Burke – Red Tories, as Orwell called them. Orwell’s instincts, at least, […]
P.S. is a 42-year-old man who has been affected by paranoid schizophrenia since the age of 20. At the onset of his psychosis, he was […]
1 Leonardo Sciascia has never gained a major foothold in the mind of the Anglophone world. Perhaps one could say he has a pigeonhole. He […]
In Paris two months ago a feminist group went about and affixed stickers with female names to streets. This was more than about those streets […]
My father never killed anyone. He never, for example, burned the skin off a child. He never shot anyone in the stomach. He never shot […]
Buridan’s ass would doubtless have hated the internet. The same old blues, he’d think, multiplied infinitely. Or perhaps, and this is the bet every […]
“His belief in man’s freedom of thought and action, whether in the marketplace, in the press or in the university lecture halls remained unshaken till […]
One of Foucault’s most ingenious lightning strokes comes at the beginning of the essay with a name like a telegram from the Hotel Abyss: Nietzsche, […]
Because it seems to me that the things in Cooper that make one so savage, when one compares them with actuality, are perhaps, when one […]
We – denizens trapped in this world – are clearly in an alt-right moment. Just this week: Andrew Scheer, the conservative party candidate for […]
Ellen M. Wood’s “The Retreat from Class” , published in 1983, is uncannily predictive of the course of neo-liberalism. Though she is pretty highhanded with […]
Oliver’s army is here to stay Oliver’s army are on their way And I would rather be anywhere else But here today – Elvis Costello Heroic […]
Breakfast cereal is an emblem of the industrialized food system. If the system had a totem, surely the faces of Captain Crunch, Tony the Tiger, […]
Fans of justice, who’ve been given a battering over the last, say, 30 years, got a small peek into a better world this week […]
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