A collection of 19 posts
History and the constraints of American federalism suggest the euphoria and catastrophism that have followed Zohran Mamdani’s election victory are misplaced.
If liberalism is to recover it must find a way to create the conditions for a better future.
Zohran Mamdani’s brand of socialism appeals to the luxury beliefs of New York’s middle classes. If his preferred policies are implemented, New Yorkers will suffer—and the poorest of them will be most impacted.
Reflections on the Western Left’s fragmented ideology.
Far from being a phantom in the imaginations of a handful of writers and scholars, conservative socialism is a real phenomenon.
My career as a political essayist began 13 years ago. I had been asked by a left-wing Canadian website to expand on my views about a then-ongoing constitutional crisis—and explain why public opinion had turned so sharply in favour of then-prime minister Stephen Harper, even among supporters of parties
Yugoslavia is dead, and it isn’t coming back.
Orwell represents one of those strange cases where a writer’s reputation predominantly rests, if not on his worst, then certainly his least typical book.
Gen Z’s simultaneous distrust of government and gravitation towards social democracy is therefore not paradoxical, it is causal—the embrace of socialist-lite policies is a consequence of distrust of the prevailing liberal establishment.
Conflict-induced-apathy can be manipulated for political ends.
This socialist revival is, of course, neither a homogenous movement, nor a fully worked-out policy program.
Amazon would still have paid tax revenue, and, more likely than not, other tech startups would have followed, growing the taxable population even further.
This is suspiciously like the argument often used by radical progressives after staking their claims in the moral high ground.
The Foucauldian method, invoking a hermeneutic of suspicion, works by unveiling or demystifying the relations of power that constitute claims to truth.
How much longer people are going to listen to these modern soothsayers. At this point, they are naked lobbyists for entrenched special interests.