“My new book, A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights, holds that liberalism is best understood as a political and moral doctrine committed to two fundamental principles.”
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How Democrats Can Win Back Cuban and Venezuelan Voters
“For those accustomed to political polarization, it is easy to transition into this hyper-polarized political climate in the United States and readily pick a side.”
Žižek and Milbank: The Monstrosity of Christ?
“However, the purpose of this reading is to stress—contra more conservative interpreters like Milbank—that the disordered post-modern world that we inhabit is not a firm break with Christianity.”
How Online Meme Culture Fails the Left
“As such, it is not simply the case that coherent political dialogue is difficult via the Internet; it is difficult, in large part, because of the Internet…”
Interview: Running for Congress as a Communist
“I offer an alternative to liberal-style capitalism or conservative-style capitalism. Both are neoliberal at the end of the day.”
On Donald Trump, the Person
“Throughout my writings on post-modern conservatism, I have generally avoided discussing President Donald Trump’s personality.”
Pharmakon V: Culture Wars—Trickle-Down Economics vs. Trickle-Down Morality
“Without this circumspection, advocacy appears heavy-handed, tone-deaf, mistimed, and ultimately self-defeating, to the detriment of the downtrodden.”
Ten Books Every Progressive Should Read to Understand the Right
“One question I am often asked by engaged leftists is what texts are most helpful for understanding the political right.”
The Crowding out of a Humanities Education
“Taken to its logical apotheosis, this trend all but guarantees that the humanities—philosophy, literature, journalism, etc.—will become the exclusive domain of the economic elite.”
Book Review: Steven Higashide’s “Better Buses, Better Cites”
“A well-planned and well-funded bus transit system opens up a community to a larger world, better paid jobs, educational opportunities, and the potential for a better life.”
Book Review: “Canceling Comedians While the World Burns”
“Now, in what is sure to be a more controversial move, Burgis is turning his analytical skills towards criticizing the political left.”
A Better Way to Understand the Intellectual Dark Web
“In a different world where the culture war never happened, I might have seen myself as their ally in some areas.”
Preview: “A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights”
“While we may be cursed to live in interesting times, this presents an opportunity to rethink some of our basic assumptions about the democratic politics of liberal states…”
Pharmakon IV: Secret Family Recipe
“Due to the repetitive observations made by most in their daily routines in a country with little socioeconomic mixing, there is poor visibility into how the lives of those in other classes transpire.”
The Problems with Cultural Christianity
“In this respect, it is not a defense of Christianity but its final undoing: the subordination of eternal God to the human, all too human need for reactionary political order and tribalistic identity.”
