The levying of taxes concerns not just one principle but the principle underlying the authority of the national state. This right to levy taxes is linked to the supervision of economic activities within a certain territory, but it is becoming an ever more fictitious basis as the scope increases for operations at the level of […]
Politics & Society
Liberalernas partiledare Simona Mohamsson meddelade idag att hon vill göra Sverige till ett skatteparadis och fördubbla antalet miljardärer till år 2037. Enligt Mohamsson har vi “fortfarande höga skatter i Sverige och det är klart att det hämmar när människor vill kunna kavla upp ärmarna.” Herre du min milde! Och detta grodors plums och ankors plask […]
The UBS Global Wealth Report 2025 revealed that Sweden — once a global beacon of equality — has now fallen to the far less enviable position of sixth place among the world’s most unequal countries in terms of wealth. How could things have gone so wrong for a country that, not so long ago, was seen […]
Over the past 15 years—in particular the last decade—the concept “Cultural Marxism” has become so overused by the American Right that we almost tune out when we hear it. The same can be said for so many Trumpian talking points—“DEI,” “radical Left,” “Trump derangement syndrome”—that we brush it aside. As with anything so overused, we […]
Displacement … is not the only problem: the identity politics model of recognition tends also to reify identity. Stressing the need to elaborate and display an authentic, self-affirming and self-generated collective identity, it puts moral pressure on individual members to conform to a given group culture. Cultural dissidence and experimentation are accordingly discouraged, when they […]
Rockhill is a master of guilt by association, guilt by geography, or guilt by anything at all. Sherlock Holmes’s “the dog that did not bark” becomes Rockhill’s dog that never barks, a fact that confirms guilt everywhere. He claims that after the war, Adorno and Horkheimer, having returned to Frankfurt, worked with scholars who had […]
It is telling that Marx once more occupies an important and positive place in Habermas’s story. Once harshly criticized in the Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, by Also a History of Philosophy Marx is promoted to being the Enlightenment figure par excellence, the thinker who singularly restored reason’s vital critical, even revolutionary, power. One saw glimpses of Habermas […]