I don't think that's quite right. China, while ambiguous in its relation to the millennial left bugbear of "neoliberalism," furnishes plenty of useful material for anti-austerity politics, which at least for a while was at the core of the millennial left project. This is perhaps the notable book on China by a millennial leftist economist and public intellectual: https://t.co/51gFSgol8d
My latest piece for @compactmag where I take the "contrarian" position against the consensus that has congealed from neocons like Bob Kagan to the anti-imperislist left that Trump's war with Iran heralds the end of pax-Americana.
Not so fast!
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It's a result of the American left moving into the academy. Being exposed to a couple prison or police abolitionists in college is part of a ruling class education in the US. It has nothing to do with participating in actual politics.
new @NewYorker column on the swing toward lo-fi, messy, human-accident aesthetics in the era of slick, glossy generative AI — to look real you now have to be genuinely sloppy
Only 14% of children now read at all out of school. This constitutes a huge emergency for the future of human culture and democracy. Real oral culture also developed the brain, but we don’t have that. Our current visual culture merely results in zombification.
Zanimiva primerjava o smrtnosti v Sloveniji po vzrokih. Posebej bi izpostavil smeri, povezane z uporabo alkohola. Dost resen problem, s katerim se ne ukvarjamo.
Liberals are more likely than Conservatives and Moderates to think it's justified for citizens to use violence to achieve political goals.
Young Liberals are especially open to violence.
Over the years, I've learned to interpret what liberal elites say cryptically because they ultimately believe the real work of politics belongs to a small, savvy few. This means they're often saying different things to different audiences simultaneously. https://t.co/7IptEMI54h