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Ur-Fascism

The Bad Conscience of a Conservative Intellectual

When Brooks describes the origins of conservatism, things start to go awry, right from the beginning.
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Neoliberalism

A Polanyian Critique of Liberal Freedom

If we snap out of our liberal realist trance we'll see liberal freedom for what it is: anti-political &...
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Democratic Values

Freedom and Life in an Age of Contagion

The COVID-19 pandemic places the values of freedom and life into conflict. The spell of capitalist realism keeps us...
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Democratic Values

Untangling the Electability Grift

In the 2020 Democratic primaries issues don't matter. All that matters is beating Trump. This electability narrative is a...
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Democratic Values

How Customer-Centric Politics Undermines Democracy

In the customer-centric era we've become a bunch of Karens. Unfortunately, Karen's customer-centric politics is absolutely devastating for democracy.
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Column

IDT Comix

In Dark Times is very much aware of the political power of art and the history of its use as a powerful propaganda tool. We are also aware of G.W.F. Hegel’s disparaging remarks about “picture thinking,” offered as a scathing critique of the empirically-minded dimwit who is incapable of thinking in concepts. Nevertheless, as the old saw teaches, sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Ergo, In Dark Times presents In Dark Times Comix.

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About Us

In Dark Times

In the days immediately following the 2016 presidential election, we observed that people seemed to be saying these words repetitively – “clearly, we’re living in dark times.”

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The Neoliberal Left - In Dark Times
Archived Posts, Neoliberalism

The Neoliberal Left is an Anti-Left

by Steve Heikkila July 27, 2018

The neoliberal left champions progressive positions on social and cultural issues, but only in a manner that treats criticism of existing economic arrangements like the third rail of politics. Viewed in this light the neoliberal left begins to look less like ‘the left’ and more like the market logic of neoliberal capitalism itself. I want to suggest that this is exactly how we ought to view it.

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by Steve Heikkila

Archived Posts

Archived Posts, Ur-Fascism

Eugène Ionesco’s Rhinoceros: Human Transformation & Moral Horror

September 22, 2018
In Ionesco’s play, people suddenly start turning into rhinoceroses; and the way that the other people react to it is an indication of why they are turning into rhinoceroses.
Archived Posts, Neoliberalism

The Neoliberal Left is an Anti-Left

July 27, 2018
Archived Posts, Bread & Circuses

Tedd Talk: The Darkening of Silicon Valley

March 18, 2018
Archived Posts, Ninth Thesis

On Facing the Possibility of Losing the Civil War

December 3, 2017
Archived Posts, Ninth Thesis

The False Dilemma of Class versus Race

May 19, 2018
Should the political project of the Left focus on class struggle or identity politics? This dispute, which speaks to the very nature of the Left’s emancipatory political project, is...
Archived Posts, Survival Guide

Engaging in Nonviolent Struggle: Power & Politics, Part III

August 26, 2018