Harris or Trump, U.S. politics will only get wilder
Predicting the election outcome is a fool’s errand, but what can be foreseen is that neither major party will be able to break the U.S.’s cycle of rising political turmoil.
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Harris or Trump, U.S. politics will only get wilder
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Fractured voice, fractured nation?
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COVID-19: A political crisis, not an existential crisis for society
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Anti-politics & the last gasp of British Labourism
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Viktor Orbán: Unpleasant nationalist? Yes. Anti-democrat? No
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Podcast: A rough guide to anti-politics
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Living the Dream Under the Accord (podcast)
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Morbid symptoms in the history of class now
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Trump, Bannon & ‘deconstructing the administrative state’
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Why better politics can’t make anti-politics go away
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What should the radical Left expect from a Trump presidency?
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Mike Baird, mythology & the return of ‘the NSW disease’
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Anti-politics and social movements in the Age of Trump
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A few thoughts on the Trump victory and the Left
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The plebiscite & the impasse on marriage equality
12 Oct
Fractured voice, fractured nation?
By Tad Tietze This post is dedicated to the memory of the essayist and blogger The Piping Shrike, who passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on 15 July this year. A dear friend and a key inspiration for this blog’s “anti-politics” analysis, as well as my thinking on race and the Constitution. Strip away the rancour […]
25 Mar
COVID-19: A political crisis, not an existential crisis for society
A guest post from Ireland by ALYS ROWE Ok, I’ve seen enough of my friends calling for the army to be sent onto the streets at this point that I’m just going to say clearly what I think and let the chips fall where they may. First of all, let’s be clear about what putting […]
13 Dec
Anti-politics & the last gasp of British Labourism
By Tad Tietze The significance of the Labour Party’s defeat in the UK election goes well beyond the scale of the electoral drubbing it received, holding onto fewer seats than in its 1983 catastrophe. A long series of heartland working class Labour seats fell for the first time in many decades (or ever) to the […]
08 Apr
Viktor Orbán: Unpleasant nationalist? Yes. Anti-democrat? No
I know this is not a popular opinion in progressive circles but the attacks on Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán as “anti-democratic” are overblown rubbish. It has gotten to the point where op-ed writers in The Guardian claim that “Hungary today is on the verge of full-blown autocracy” and “the war on democracy in Hungary is a war […]
22 Feb
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Podcast: A rough guide to anti-politics
By @Dr_Tad I recently appeared on the Living The Dream podcast hosted by Jon Piccini (@jonpiccini) and Dave Eden (@withsobersenses), talking about the concept of anti-politics that Elizabeth Humphrys (@liz_beths) and I developed over the last five years here at Left Flank. I also responded to some of the misunderstandings and criticisms of the concept. […]
07 Jun
Living the Dream Under the Accord (podcast)
Last week I was interviewed on the wonderful ‘Living the Dream’ podcast. We discussed the Accord, neoliberalism and the ALP Hawke-Keating government. Our focus was on recent articles by Van Badham and Wayne Swan in The Guardian, and how the ALP and unions are attempting to understand and frame the experience of the Hawke-Keating government today. I discuss […]
13 Mar
Morbid symptoms in the history of class now
The following is the text of a presentation I gave last week, as part of the Sydney Historical Research Network seminar series “History Now”. The week’s topic was “The History of Class Now”. It was originally posted at An Integral State. *** If the ruling class has lost its consensus, i.e. is no longer “leading” [or directive: dirigente] but only “dominant”, […]
26 Feb
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Trump, Bannon & ‘deconstructing the administrative state’
When Donald Trump’s top two White House officials, Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus, appeared together at the American Conservative Union’s CPAC conference the other day, Bannon (the big ideas member of the duo) outlined the top three priorities or “lines of work” of the administration: The first is kind of national security and sovereignty and […]
03 Feb
Why better politics can’t make anti-politics go away
A recent think piece by Spiked!’s theoretical guru, Frank Furedi, is an attack on the idea that anti-politics is any kind of solution to the current breakdown in authority of the political system. It’s worth examining Furedi’s case because it aligns with anti-anti-politics arguments currently found on the Left in its softer and more radical […]
05 Nov
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