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A consideration of theories of human needs as a condition for characterizing tech Solutionism as a “dictatorship over needs.
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The advanced capitalist legitimation crisis turns out to be the lack of a legitimation crisis we ought to be having.
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Realism demands that a crisis of democratic legitimacy as such has to be thinkable. Idealism demands that belief in legitimacy can and must be justified.
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Can the legitimacy of democratic institutions as such simply collapse?
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Neoliberalism is the rationality through which capitalism finally swallows humanity.
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What if there was a percentage of people who are just wired this way, with a predisposition to intolerance? What if right-wing authoritarians and the rest of us just have fundamentally different brains?
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In the Open Society and its Enemies, Popper has nothing at all nice to say about Plato; and while he has more temperate things to say about Socrates, the truth is, he simply isn’t very interested in him.
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At a surface level, it is not immediately obvious why a philosopher of science like Karl Popper, concerned with things like the problem of induction, would feel the need to insert himself into social science.
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This post is a defense of the ideal of The Open Society which is presently under serious attack by the “Make America Great Again” crowd, with their various authoritarian, white supremacist dog whistles.
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“I saw the Emperor – this world-spirit – riding out of the city on reconnaissance. It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, astride a horse, reaches out over the…
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In the invocation of unitary executive power to say that executive orders are unreviewable, we hear strong echoes of fascist decisionism.
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