Changing our systems of governance (opens in new tab)

I’m increasingly frustrated with a specific failure mode on parts of the intellectual left: analysis that performs insight while refusing to touch the real object. It oscillates between two shortcuts. The first is a kind of diagrammatic power-critique — tracing who funds who, which networks influence which narratives — as if mapping influence were equivalent to explaining why a new constituency is forming. The second is the speed with which it collapses that constituency into a moral c...