Classical liberalism loves appealing to reason, to idealized rationalism. A quirky consequences of this is that they generally think it’s fine to be motivated by idiosyncratic religious beliefs, as long as in the public sphere (classical liberalism also loves “the public sphere”) you present publicly accesible arguments. The idea is it doesn’t really matter what your private motivations are for supporting a particular position or policy because there is a single Truth that we can all arrive at [...] Continue reading ➠

I have been putting my old zines up on my website. Today it's the turn of “Theory Head № 1” … a short zine about the role of theory in the struggle for social change. I put this together back in grad school to try to explain to my anarchist punks friends why I thought bothering with theory was worth it. As a zine, I still really like it! It's pretty and coherent and satisfying. And, I still think analysis and reflection are important. But, I also think I was far too kind to the world of theory. [...] Continue reading ➠