Poststructuralism

Poststructuralism is nullified by its own fractalization of identity formation. It has no standing for its critique of outgroup identity politics, because by its own logic there can be no unitary Critic. For there to be a critic there must be a self that is inaccessible to the interrogative amalgamations that might assert a contrary and prior meaning to any possible discourse. All critique of outgroup identity formations is in actuality a radiation of violence from the totalitarian impulse of postliberalism. A rape.

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Multiculturalism Survives in an Atmosphere of Mammon Worship

When your reigning ethos is secular economism, "culture" seems like kitsch, a silly frivolity, and cultural fungibility is made plausible.

Democratic Party Disarray

The coalition of anti-Israel rank-and-file progressives and the Israel-supporting Jewish donor class, while one of necessity in the past, may break apart as the left is forced to reinvent itself in light of its late electoral collapse. The new synthesis on which these forces converge is likely to be a co-opting of the socialist Left-Populism that Senator Bernie Sanders had hoped to harness in his ill-fated Presidential election bid (if a genuine bid it was, rather than a demographic feint). In this makeover, the face of the Democratic Party will become younger, as the party seeks relevance to millennials, many of whom no longer feel any sympathy with the post-war international liberal consensus. A doubling-down on the historic wager that the coalition of the fringes will hold, and that the Trump phenomenon is an anomaly would be a serious miscalculation. While the Trump victory certainly represents a paroxysm of antipathy to liberal elitism, it also expresses an eruption of white...

Confederation, not Federation: Patrick Henry Against the Federal Constitution.

I wonder whether Brooke Allen considered Mr. Henry a "Founding Father?" Could the first chapter of our Federal history be titled "Jacobin Gentry betray a Christian Nation?" http://users.wfu.edu/zulick/340/henry.html

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