We're hearing a lot about "joy" now that the Kamala Harris and Tim Walz campaign have made it a byword of their project, so we have to ask what they mean by it.
Host James Lindsay takes on George Soros and his dialectical alchemy of "reflexivity" through Soros's own words in The Alchemy of Finance and elsewhere.
The attacks on Classical Liberalism come from both the Left and the Right, and they succeed, as Solzhenitsyn put it, "because we do not love freedom enough."
One of Mao Zedong's most famous pieces is a short command from 1937 titled "Combat Liberalism." Contrary to what many conservatives would have us believe, Communism is not the completion of liberalism but one of its mortal enemies, the fruit of a Leftwing, Romantic Reaction to the Enlightenment.
I find it very odd when people keep telling me that “the left” is doing something bad with regard to wokeness and applied postmodernism when so many of the people opposing identity politics, cancel culture, collective blame, language policing, deplatforming, and censorship by the Critical Social Justice faction are, in fact, on the left.