American Dreamwork
This is the fourth post in our review forum of Wendy Brown’s In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Anti-Democratic Politics in the West (Columbia University Press, 2019). Wendy Brown’s latest […]
MoreAmerica’s Orwellian Left
John Michael Colón’s excellent essay on democratic socialism and the contemporary American left centers around George Orwell’s Animal Farm. As Colón writes, the book is mainly known as a warning […]
MoreThis Time It’s Different
This week, rail workers and civil servants in France staged a massive demonstration against Emmanuel Macron’s planned reform of the national rail service, coordinated with plans for an ongoing […]
MoreIs a New May ’68 Brewing 50 Years After the Fact?
Think of all the recent manifestations of unrest among the young: the Sanders phenomenon, the Corbyn rebellion, Occupy Wall Street, Podemos, Nuit Debout, and now the German JuSos. Even the […]
MoreJean-Claude Monod: “Il y a une figure qu’on peut exhumer, le chef émancipateur”
Directeur de recherches au CNRS et professeur de philosophie à l’Ecole normale supérieure, Jean-Claude Monod est l’auteur de Qu’est-ce qu’un chef en démocratie?, une réflexion sur le charisme et l’autorité dans la […]
MoreJean-Claude Monod: “After the totalitarian experience, we can recover the emancipatory leader”
Jean-Claude Monod is a research director at the CNRS and professor of philosophy at the Ecole normale supérieure. In Qu’est-ce qu’un chef en démocratie? [What is a leader in a democracy?], he […]
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