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Mamdani, Bi Tradwives, & DC Life

The Borrowed Venezuelan Kettle

No One Knows What ‘the West’ Is

The Death of the Conservative Prestige Economy

Welcome to Mamdani's NYC

Out of Africa

The Automation of Antihumanism

The Crisis of Liberalism (Part 7): Nick Land’s Paleoliberal Accelerationism

Gay Frogs, Cosmic Horror, and the Eclipse of Antihumanism

Protecting the Peace

The Limits of Free Speech Libertinism

Getting out of the Machine

The Crisis of Liberalism (Part 6): The Persistence of Eugenics

Labubu, Kidults, & MMA

The Return of the Assassin

Slouching Towards ‘Excellence’

Taylor Swift, Hipster Leftists, & the CIA's future

The Populist Future Ahead

AI and the Slow Cancellation of the Future

Big Tech gets a reality check

The First Tech Right

The Uses of Jeffrey Epstein

The Crisis of Liberalism (Part 5): The Origins of Eugenics

The First Great Covid Movie May Also Be the Last

Zohran Mamdani, Petty-Bourgeois Radical

Back soon, barring apocalypse...

Higher Ed Is ‘Disrupting’ Itself Into Oblivion

The Obama-to-Yarvin Pipeline

The Crisis of Liberalism (Part 4): The End of Woke?

The Californian Ideology in Ruins

Right-Wing Victim Power

On ‘Attention Capitalism’

The Crisis of Liberalism (Part 3): The Trans-ing of the Political Subject

The Prospects of Anti-Woke Capital

Cronenberg Beyond the Grave

The Covert Theology of ChatGPT

From the War on Terror to the War on Covid—and Back Again

The Long Birth Pangs of Post-Postmodernity

What did y’all think post-neoliberalism meant? vibes? papers? essays?

Notes on Viral Hegemony

Fully Automated Luxury Liberalism

The Crisis of Liberalism (Part 2)

Elegy for the Last Covidians

Abolish Grad School

The Crisis of Liberalism (Part 1)

Notes on Right-Wing Cancel Culture

Welcome to the Bizarro Awokening

The Unbearable Fakeness of MAHA

The Masquerade of Power

Why Tech Criticism Failed

The Forever War on Woke

David Lynch’s Errand Into the Wilderness

Blaming Men, Blaming Women (Part 1)

How “Climate” Became God

The Counter-Revolution Will Not Be TikTok’d