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Passion & Analysis

Passion & Analysis

From Inventing the Future, by Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams If politics without passion leads to cold-hearted, bureaucratic technocracy, then passion bereft of analysis risks becoming a libidinally driven surrogate for effective action. Politics comes to be about feelings of personal empowerment, masking an absence of strategic gains.” Yeah.

Castrration, the Post-Liberal Right, and the Liberal Left

Castrration, the Post-Liberal Right, and the Liberal Left

I've been trying to suss out (for myself) some of the theoretical orientations that thinkers from the current liberal left and (post-liberal) right are making use of in their thinking. One of the thinkers who appears to offer a theory of the State that many post-liberal right-wing thinkers

Beshear’s words

Andy Beshear, the governor of Kentucky, wrote the following in an op-ed published by the New York Times (the article is paywalled) When most Americans wake up in the morning, they are not thinking about politics. Americans wake up thinking about their jobs and whether they make enough money to

The Dems as HR department

I've been reading a lot about the election and why the results were what they were. Many of the articles say the same thing. Today, I read this article by Mike Pesca in The Atlantic, and I think it had a very well-put observation. I’ve been thinking