On political decline and realignment.
The editor of American Affairs joins us to discuss the decay of conservatism and we ask whether this decay doesn't apply to other parts of the political spectrum too. Is today's 'class struggle' really just between the upper-middle class and the elite? And we discuss the 'late-Soviet' USA - the sense of decline embodied in the gerontocracy of the ruling class.
Readings:
Excerpt: /206/ Three Articles: Post-Liberalism
/205/ The World In One Country: The Final ft. Many Guests
/204/ Three Articles: People's Republic of Fleeing
Excerpt: /203/ Positive Biopolitics? ft. Benjamin Bratton
Excerpt: /202/ 3 Articles: Clerisy, War, Football
Excerpt: /201/ Reading Club: The New Class War
/200/ The World In One Country ft. Many Guests
Excerpt: /199/ Aufhebonus Bonus (June)
/198/ Universal India ft. Achin Vanaik
RE-RELEASE: /100/ What Was the End of History? ft. Many Guests
Excerpt: /197/ Reading Club: The Breakaway
Excerpt: /196/ Cosmopolitan Dystopia
/195/ No Shock China ft. Isabella Weber
Excerpt: /194/ Anti-Politics & Non-Movements
/193/ The New 20 Years' Crisis
Excerpt: /192/ Three Articles: Pandemic (Dis)Satisfactions
Excerpt: /191/ Reading Club: Ever Closer Union?
/190/ Top 5 Fetishes ft. Elena Louisa Lange
UNLOCKED /183/ Acid Bunga Bunga ft. Mike Watson
/189/ Pink Tide Paradoxes ft. Fabio Luis
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