To the extent that democracy is an experiment, media pundits seem to confuse the control group with the intervention where they conclude the failings of electoral politics stem from constituents “voting their feelings.”If anything, the closest thing to a control in this scenario would be the pulling of levers that have long since ceased to […]

A passing familiarity with the work of Barthes and Proust, primarily, though likely there are others, suggests to me that either a fundamental misreading of libertinism as it is observed today has taken place, or that what we are dealing with is an expired set of justifications. Vitiated of its principles, its perversions profaned, to […]