What I Saw At The Debate Between Dissent and American Affairs
by Matthew SchmitzDispatches from the debate: Any left that is unable to see the way we are enslaved by lust will end up the unwitting handmaiden of those who exploit. Continue Reading »
Dispatches from the debate: Any left that is unable to see the way we are enslaved by lust will end up the unwitting handmaiden of those who exploit. Continue Reading »
Last week, I moved from California to the Washington, D.C. area. I don’t expect to return. Alas, I don’t want to return. Continue Reading »
The contradictions between these two ways of looking at the world, promethean and determinist, are obvious. Either we are autonomous individuals who transcend the accidents of birth or we are members of whatever identity groups we happened to be born into. Depending on the circumstances, the Left will either deny or affirm the primacy of nature. Continue Reading »
If Michael Walsh’s account of the rise of the “Unholy Left” in The Devil’s Pleasure Palaceis to be believed, the playbook for the contemporary fragmentation of American values was drawn up in Frankfurt by neo-Marxian philosophers in the years between the two World Wars.
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Jeremy Corbyn's victory in the Labour leadership contest and his immediate subsequent problems indicate the hollow and contradictory heart of the New Left. Continue Reading »
Marginality brings its advantages if the marginalized are prepared to capitalize upon them. Continue Reading »
The reactions to the attack on Charlie Hebdo highlight the odd affinity between the left and radical Islam and also draw attention to the unsungand Augustinianchampions of liberal democracy: Satirists. Continue Reading »
What to make of the #occupy movement? Well, come to think of it, I unknowingly did say something about it a few weeks back when I wrote a far too long post on Joe Pugs contemporary folk song I Do my Fathers Drugs. So my contribution to the punditrys occupation with . . . . Continue Reading »
Rock intellectualizings third basic flaw is its captivity to bohemian/New Left assumptions regarding morals, culture, and politics. The Songbook will examine rocks largely uncritical promotion of the sexual revolution as it unfolds, but here we consider the oddity of its leftism. On one . . . . Continue Reading »
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