The cultural nature of politics, the political nature of culture: these have formed the main quandary debated by left intellectuals, mainly among themselves (and there lies much of the trouble), over the twenty some years since the oldest of us went off to colleges where Theory and Cultural Studies were all the impotent rage.| n+1
Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same.| Dissent Magazine
Part II of a conversation between Jon Baskin and David Sessions| thepointmag.substack.com
Part III of a dialogue between Jon Baskin and David Sessions| thepointmag.substack.com
Or notes toward finding your people and touching grass.| substack.com
This was a reply to @Gnocchic Apocryphon, but also to @Daniel Oppenheimer and his post-left episode: https://danieloppenheimer.substack.com/p/what-was-the-post-left. Still a lot to work out later, but notes toward a better sociology of the current intellectual configuration. —- First of all, the Trotskyist dimension is essential to understanding the original neocons, though I am shakier on the Podhoretzes and Kristols than neocon-adjacent liberals like Daniel Bell and Seymour Martin Lipset....| Substack
How the superrich have funded a new class of intellectual.| The New Republic
Geoff Shullenberger and I autopsy a movement, and moment, in time| danieloppenheimer.substack.com
If the intellectual at the think tank was the assistant to the legislator, here she has become the willing tool of the activist.| The Point Magazine
