Culture
At the End of White Male History
When culture no longer includes you in its vision for the future, despair is the predictable outcome.
Ragnarok, but Dumber
The Vic Berger-FuckJerry meme feud tells us that a very stupid cyberpunk future has already arrived.
The Decline of the Imperial Aesthetic
The Plattenbau, being the remnant of an overcome social order, encapsulates the anachronism that is mid-century modernism.
Game Over
Industrialized leisure is yet another candidate for the title of the secular age's surrogate religion.
Sarah Jeong and the Only Direction
The radicalism that is mainstream in the American press is not Marxism. It's something more cynical.
The Power Elite’s Queer Liturgy
"Pride Month" provides the most concrete examples of elites sanitizing their power through a conspicuous devotion to inclusivity.
A Different Grim Future
Cyberpunk was born from left-liberal anxiety. But as dystopia unfolds, that same ethos is powerless to do anything but applaud.
The Aeneid for Incels
Someone like Elliot Rodger is not an alien from outer space. He is produced by the society around him.
