An Interview with David Bromwich
By Nat Schmookler.
“There’s an immediate sense one has, which must be relied on, which we can’t not trust, that says: that’s just wrong.”
Paris, 2015
“Down with Putin. Down with the Patriarch. Down with the Pope. Down with the self-styled progressives who have abandoned the liberatory spirit of 1968 in favor of the regulatory spirit of identitarianism.”
Rebelling Against the Left, From The Left
By Ted Fertik.
“We don’t yet know what happens to freely-elected left-leaning governments when their populations rebel against them not because they want less social justice, but because they want more.”
Why Brazil’s middle-class rebelled.
Nothing At All
“I knew I was lost. Or would be in moments, as soon as this peruke reached me, this peruke at rest on the splendid head of my old foe, my single foe, my one declared foe and thus my archfoe, the long-dead German philosopher Immanuel Kant.”
A short story.
Anthropology as Science
“Thorough, scientific anthropology can amount to something close to advocacy: it shows the richness of other worlds, and therefore the tragedy of destroying them.”
Justin E. H. Smith defends anthropology as science and advocacy—against both the postmodern turn and the simplistic scientism of Napoleon Chagnon.
The Institutionalist Left
“Institutional politics can become a source of delight, no less imaginative than its revolutionary counterpart – but narrower, and more disciplined.”
How the left should respond to injustice.
The Thirteen Commandments of Neoliberalism
By Philip Mirowski.
Neoliberals are not fundamentalists. But they approach crises with a certain logic–one that is directly relevant to comprehending neoliberalism’s unexpected strength in the current global crisis.
The Gezi Agenda
By Onur Alper.
“Past struggles were predominantly aimed at taking over Turkey’s oppressive state apparatus. The Gezi Park movement, by contrast, seeks to introduce clear restraints on how the state apparatus should be run.”
A Letter from Istanbul.
The 50 Percent
By Zeynep Pamuk.
“The Gezi Park movement is fundamentally about demanding the right to demand rights.“
A Letter From Istanbul.
Turkey’s Class Struggle
Turkey’s protests are as much about class and power as they are about religion. But the real question is: Can they make the country more liberal?
The Dictator’s Daughter
By Thomas Meaney.
“Koreans voted for Ms. Park not so much out of nostalgia for her father’s iron fist, as out of longing for a time when the future seemed brighter than it does today.”
A Letter from South Korea.
A Brief Chat with Martin Amis
By Simon Taylor.
“I don’t go back to my own stuff. As time gets thinner and shorter, the desire to push on is much stronger. I used to reread myself all the time. I thought a bottle of wine and a five-hour read of me was the ideal evening. But I don’t feel that anymore.”
Martin Amis talks about Lionel Asbo and the technical inferiority of his earlier novels.
An Interview with T. M. Scanlon
By Yascha Mounk.
“Philosophy is about deciding what to think, not about convincing other people what to think.”
In his most extensive interview to date, Tim Scanlon talks about free will, choice, punishment, blame, tolerance, and the future of liberalism - as well as about his childhood and intellectual development.
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