Abolish Everything, Replace It With What?
Zohran Mamdani's allies want to abolish the police, prisons, borders, and capitalism. None of them have said what comes next.
John Aziz
· 6 min read
Socialism
A collection of 21 posts
The Destructivists
When the appetite for moral reform becomes an appetite for destruction.
John Aziz
· 8 min read
The Limits of American Progressivism
History and the constraints of American federalism suggest the euphoria and catastrophism that have followed Zohran Mamdani’s election victory are misplaced.
John Aziz
· 8 min read
The Masses and the Market
If liberalism is to recover it must find a way to create the conditions for a better future.
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
Gentrifying the Intifada
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.
John Aziz
· 8 min read
Orwell and Socialism
Reflections on the Western Left’s fragmented ideology.
Michael C. Anderson
· 7 min read
On Conservative Socialism
Far from being a phantom in the imaginations of a handful of writers and scholars, conservative socialism is a real phenomenon.
Seamus Flaherty
· 16 min read
Smearing an Entire Protest Movement as Fascistic Will Come Back to Haunt My Fellow Leftists
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
Stuart Parker
· 7 min read
A Late Obituary for a Country: Yugoslavia (1918–1991)
Yugoslavia is dead, and it isn’t coming back.
Maria Vivod
· 12 min read
There's (a Lot) More to George Orwell than Nineteen Eighty-Four
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.
Herman Goodden
· 10 min read
Understanding the Return of Socialism
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.
Andrew Sansone
· 8 min read
Milan Kundera Warned Us About Historical Amnesia. Now It's Happening Again
Conflict-induced-apathy can be manipulated for political ends.
Ewan Morrison
· 8 min read
Socialism's Endless Refrain: This Time, Things Will Be Different
This socialist revival is, of course, neither a homogenous movement, nor a fully worked-out policy program.
Kristian Niemietz
· 7 min read
We Can Put an End to State Bidding Wars
Amazon would still have paid tax revenue, and, more likely than not, other tech startups would have followed, growing the taxable population even further.
Christopher Sabaitis
· 6 min read
What Joan Didion Foretold About Campaign Socialism and Popularity
This is suspiciously like the argument often used by radical progressives after staking their claims in the moral high ground.
Joe Hefferon
· 7 min read