‘Glory Days’ is more than just a great song by Bruce Springsteen. The image is of aging men remembering the great days and achievements of their youth, and living in the past, and not facing the routine mediocrity into which their lives have settled. I think this image can give us some insight into theContinue reading “Glory Days: where the left went wrong”
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Foucault, Marx, and pervasive power
One frequently hears the complaint about ‘identity politics’ and ‘critical race theory’ that they are obsessed with power and reduce all social relationships to power, and that this is a fundamental error, and overgeneralisation of power (see for instance, Lindsay and Pluckrose’s Cynical Theories, 2020). On the contrary, I would argue that the thesis ofContinue reading “Foucault, Marx, and pervasive power”
Uneasy Essays 