Our morbid obsession with discipline

At a lecture given to the Socialist Students of Austria in 1967, the philosopher and social critic Theodor Adorno warned of a dangerous tendency that lurked in the bourgeois democratic societies. This lecture was transcribed and posthumously released as a short book called Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism, and in it he had a…

The pitfalls of free speech absolutism in the age of fascist terror

Defending freedom of speech consistently is a very difficult thing, especially as the conversation around it has been dominated by an absolutist definition of free speech which insists that all types of speech be allowed, sometimes even outright disinformation and harassment. As time goes by, it becomes harder and harder to defend that position as…

No, The Northman is not a reactionary film

NOTE: This article will contain some spoilers for The Northman, as well as discussion of violence. If you do not wish to read spoilers, or are uncomfortable with the themes discussed therein, do not continue reading the article. On Bank Holiday Monday, I went to see The Northman in cinema. I had heard much about…

Roe v. Wade is about to die. Without mass action, Democrats will let it happen.

A leaked Supreme Court draft has confirmed the worst fear of abortion rights activists: that one day the Christian right will gain such influence in the Supreme Court that they will be able to overturn Roe v. Wade, the ruling which protected the right to an abortion by declaring state laws banning it to be…