Based on its title and on the snippets I saw being quoted, I fully expected to dislike Lee Jones’ article “Charlottesville and the Politics of Left Hysteria,” posted a few days ago at The Current Moment. Instead, I’ve found it nuanced, cogent, and well worth reading. I myself have tried to broach this topic of the […]
Posts Tagged ‘political left’
Hysteria, or hope?
Posted in Politics, tagged Charlottesville, cultural left, democracy, fascism, hope, hysteria, left, left politics, political left, Trump era on August 29, 2017 | 20 Comments »
A time for grieving, a time for analysis
Posted in Politics, tagged Beirut, fear, geopolitics, global civil religion, globality, hope, media, Paris, political left, terrorism on November 17, 2015 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes discussions in social media feel like the internal conversations of a person with severe multiple-personality disorder trying hard to give equal voice, or at least free rein, to their many voices. And I find I can agree with all or most of those voices; and at the same time disagree. In a facebook debate […]
Global disorder, the left, & a new democracy
Posted in Politics, tagged cultural left, cultural politics, global disorder, hegemony, leftism, political left on November 1, 2015 | 1 Comment »
The following is something I wrote a while back that I have not had a chance to do anything with. I’m sharing it here simply because it will otherwise languish. It is a reflection on the political left and its failings in a changing global situation, a situation marked by inequality on a global scale, by increasing, […]