Several months ago, I listened to a podcast on Quinn Slobodian’s most recent book Hayek’s Bastards (2025), in which he referred to the scripts and narratives used to orientate oneself in the world as forming the ‘supply-side’ of political populism. Whilst the ‘demand-side’ considers the nebulous factors that lure voters towards populist figures, the ‘supply-side’,Continue reading “Whose Myth are You: Mythocracy by Yves Citton”
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Reading and Incitement
Of the many shameful justifications for the violent suppression of student peace encampments, perhaps the most absurd was NYPD Deputy Commissioner Kaz Daughtry’s presentation of a mocked-up version of Charles Townshend’s Terrorism: A Short Introduction. Discovered during a raid on the occupied Hamilton Hall, Townshend’s academic primer was cited as evidence of outside agitators, malignantContinue reading “Reading and Incitement”
Completing the Unresolved Plot of History
Theory, Politics, and Literature in Ricardo Piglia’s The Way Out My article Completing the Unresolved Plot of History: Theory, Politics, and Literature in Ricardo Piglia’s The Way Out has been published on Tom Pazderka’s Substack, A Secret Plot. The piece considers the combination of mythology, capital, and furious readers in Piglia’s eerily anachronistic and offbeatContinue reading “Completing the Unresolved Plot of History”
Thomas Travers 