Politics has become about questions of life and death again in a way that blows a hole in a key aspect of the Hobbesian liberal project, which is that unless you declare war, politics would not be shaped by mortal concerns.
Read MoreThe slogan “take back control” was a piece of political genius. It worked on every level between the macroeconomic and the psychoanalytic.
Read MoreThere is a difference between “neoliberal markets” and “free markets”; if the Left wants to offer plausible economic solutions today, it needs to reconnect with its critique of the former, and make its peace with the latter.
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