The decline of America first socialism
Robert Brenner’s nostalgia for Fordism in these times
The borders of sociology’s object
The American Sociological Association and the borders (of its discipline and truth)
Journalism Intercepted
Who’s the Deep State now?
The impossible world of Donald Trump
Compulsive liars construct impossible worlds not entirely unlike the logic of possible worlds.
Un/Insurable (Moral) Risks and the AHCA
A revised version of this is now here, at the New Inquiry, re-titled “Dispensing God’s Care”
Bannon’s economic nationalist egg
Steve Bannon’s villain origin story and Trumpist economic nationalim
Chaos
Chaos is the dream of order.
Identitarianism
How ‘identitarianism’ came to be used as a synonym for ‘identity politics’ is a mystery.
Mi existir es resistir. Estamos aqui
The murders at Pulse’s Latinx night in Orlando on June 11-12, 2016 were the largest massacre on US soil since the US Cavalry opened fire on the Lakota at Wounded Knee Creek just over a century ago. More so, the erasure of Latinx/Indigenous, transgender and Black queers by the gaystream from the Stonewall Riots of…
Fascism, from Fordism to Trumpism
Fascism is as American as Henry Ford. And Donald Trump.
Matagarup. The frontier wars never ended, were never won
Police moved in to Matagarup (colonial name: Heirisson Island) yesterday, site of the Nyoongar Bibbulman Tent Embassy in Perth (Western Australia) — some fifty police, including a line of mounted police and dogs.
The skin in the political game of SYRIZA and ANEL
There has been a good deal of discussion about the recent elections in Greece and, in particular, SYRIZA’s decision to form a parliamentary alliance with the ultra-nationalist Independent Greeks (ANEL).
