Animals
By Jaime Karnes.
“I folded my problems into pretty paper animals to keep me company. I set them on the Formica dinette set. I jammed some into cracks so they’d stand up straight: organized warfare.”
A Short Story.
47 Days
By Paul Lisicky.
“How often were two men in sync when they weren’t worn out or hyped up on drugs? Maybe their good luck had something to do with the fact that the two were wounded.”
A Short Story.
The Liberal Case for Intellectual Property
By Yascha Mounk.
“Let us drop the deluded pretense that the defense of intellectual property is inherently conservative, or even reactionary.”
Why our society would be less egalitarian and artistic without intellectual property rights.
Bárbula Copies, A Funeral Home
By Slavko Zupcic.
(Translated by Jeremy Osner.)
“We ran to him. We had a fucking corpse! Finally, we had a corpse.”
A Short Story.
A Rights-Based Utopia?
By Adam Etinson.
“Rather than worry about how we might preserve the utopian status of human rights into the future, we ought to worry about how to rescue utopia from the clutches of human rights. “
A plea for substantive utopias.
After Utopia?
By Samuel Moyn.
“There is a risk that human rights will be called on to do so much, precisely because no powerful imaginative alternatives exist, that they will lose even the minimal promise of transformation that allow the norms to inspire so many.”
A response to Adam Etinson.
Occupy Wall Street and the Rediscovery of Politics
By Jeremy Kessler
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“In taking to the streets with their peculiar brand of leadership and organization, the Occupy Wall Street movement taps into a deep American tradition of outdoor politics: for much of American history, the motor of progressive political change was the assembly of the people out-of-doors, coming together to debate and organize beyond the prescribed avenues of official political reform.”
Thatcher and Conservatism
By Timothy Stanley.
“Ask a Conservative what kind of society they’d like to live in and they’ll generally identify the 1950s. This is highly ironic, because the faithful, decent national community that we imagine the 1950s to have been was also economically highly regulated and strongly wedded to the postwar consensus that Margaret Thatcher tore up.”
The Age of Uncertainty
By Sheri Berman.
“Particularly in the West, what seems striking about the current period is the widespread sense of the need for change combined with the lack of any coherent plans for it.”
On discontent and its failure to effect transformation.
Towards a New Manifesto
By Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer.
“We cannot call for the defence of the Western world.”
In 1956, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer sat down to write an updated version of the Communist Manifesto. These are previously unpublished notes from their discussions.
What is Populism?
By “What populism necessarily denies is the pluralism of contemporary societies: in the populist imagination there is only the people on the one hand and the illegitimate intruders into our politics, from both above and below, on the other.”
An account of what populism is, and why it is dangerous.
A Lack of Leadership
By Timothy Stanley.
“Most voters are conservative in that they want peace in the streets yet liberal in that they don’t want to use water cannons to get it.”
What Britain can learn from America’s reaction to the riots of the 1960s.
England Burning
By Alexander Lee.
“If there is a single underlying cause for the riots, it is to be found in the shocking social problems in Britain’s depressed suburbs and in the gradual abandonment of social questions by mainstream political discourse.”
Seeing King Lear
By Charles Petersen.
Will there ever be a persuasive staging of Lear, or is the aging king condemned forever to remain most at home in the theater of the mind?
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