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Some might be fooled by the swivel-eyed sermons about “free speech” or “common sense.” But Farage is no friend of workers. His party would criminalise strikes, deregulate labour protections, and deport those without paperwork faster than you can say “hostile environment.” The deeper appeal comes not from anything tangible, but from the thrill of performative cruelty.
Trump’s April 23rd Executive Order abolishes disparate-impact liability under the guise of restoring “meritocracy,” turning civil rights law into a tool for erasing systemic discrimination rather than remedying it. It is a cornerstone of Project 2025’s authoritarian blueprint: neutral on its face, revanchist in effect.
Trump’s return to power exposes the just world theory for what it is: a comforting liberal illusion that crumbles under the weight of class reality and fascist spectacle
This review of Quinn Slobodian’s Hayek’s Bastards shows how neoliberalism didn’t die. It has mutated into caste, borders, and IQ charts.
A short, urgent book that arrives too late, David A. Graham’s The Project lays out the authoritarian blueprint of Project 2025 in chilling detail.
On Faiz Siddiqui’s Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk
This review of Quinn Slobodian’s Hayek’s Bastards shows how neoliberalism didn’t die. It has mutated into caste, borders, and IQ charts.
A short, urgent book that arrives too late, David A. Graham’s The Project lays out the authoritarian blueprint of Project 2025 in chilling detail.
On Faiz Siddiqui’s Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk
The future broke, and we went back to where it shimmered
On Jefferson Cowie, Carl Freedman, and the Long Seventies of Trumpism
I picked up A Colossal Wreck because the 1990s and early 2000s feel more relevant by the day. There’s a
Paul W. Schroeder was no Marxist, but in an age of collapsing empires and revived realpolitik, his cold-eyed history of diplomacy offers the left a theory of ruin we can use
Dan Edelstein’s The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin and Enzo Traverso’s Revolution: An Intellectual History
This book is about the fens. I live on the edge of the fens, a flat place. When the wind blows it stops for no one. But the fens are not about wind. They are about earth and water. Black earth.
Whipple’s Uncharted is less a chronicle of Trump’s comeback than an unflinching autopsy of a decaying liberal order that mistook gerontocracy for stability and denial for strategy