Turbo America
It was a crisp March morning in Austin, and just…
Hidden Fears and Secret Dreams
This is the second column in a four-part series by B.D. McClay on speculative fiction.
Last Boys at the Beginning of HistoryI became part of a politically mixed social scene in D.C. and had discovered, with at least a little discomfort, that despite the twentieth-century liberal occupying the White House, the intellectual vitalism in my generation was increasingly to be found in post-liberal or conservative spaces—in other words, on the right.
A Good PartyThe party would prefer politics be anything—ineffectual, genocidal, even—but embarrassing.
On the Old RomanticsNo sooner had Donald Trump secured the presidency for a second time than the commentators began commentating and the prophets began prophesying. Trump would criminalize microplastics; he would build the long-awaited wall; he would Make America Great Again, again, maybe this time for good. Meanwhile, an elite coterie insisted that he would do something that he had never mentioned, even in his most meandering speeches: he would revitalize Culture.
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