Politics & Society
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 […]
Det är inte bara den faktiska inkomstutvecklingen som gjort att de ekonomiska klyftorna i Sverige ökat, även skattesystemet och skattepolitiken har bidragit till utvecklingen. När skatterna har sänkts mer för dem med högre inkomster har de fått en starkare inkomstutveckling efter skatt jämfört med grupper som inte fått del av skattesänkningarna. Skattesatsen har sjunkit betydligt […]
Beneath the civic ideal of taxation as a collective, equitable endeavour lies an entrenched hypocrisy: the architecture of modern tax codes serves not the public good but the consolidation of private wealth. The progressivity of income tax is hollowed out at the uppermost tiers, where income is largely derived from capital — taxed at preferential […]
. It would indeed have been far better if the Trump loyalist Mark Rutte — instead of devoutly praising someone who persistently undermines the alliance — had told his genocidal maniac, ‘daddy,’ one or two home truths …