One through-line that unites [the] tics and splits [of the progressive left] is the enthusiasm for the medical-industrial complex and biotechnological intervention, which is why Illichian critics of the pharmaceutical industry, a long-standing faction on the post-Sixties left, are either politically homeless or now on the right. Think biotechnological Prometheanism. This tendency often takes bizarre and politically suicidal forms: instead of advocating for the expansion of the family model to...
