Por Kevin Carson. Artigo original: Free Marketplace of Ideas — or Welfare State? de 20 de junho 2024. Traduzido para o português por Ruan L. Há um certo tipo de guerreiro cultural de direita – dentre os quais há um número desproporcional de autoproclamados “libertários” – que parece confuso sobre o que um “livre mercado…

There’s a certain kind of right-wing culture warrior — a disproportionate number of whom call themselves “libertarians” — who seems to be confused about what an actual “free marketplace of ideas” is. Self-described “free speech absolutists” of this sort never stop avowing their fondness for John Stuart Mill, and proclaiming their belief that “the cure…

Di Kevin Carson. Articolo originale: Konstantin Kisin’s Delusions Are On Life Support, del 18 gennaio 2024. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. Il 22 ottobre scorso Konstantin Kisin pubblica un articolo su The Free Press (una pubblicazione fondata da Bari Weiss e specializzata in scenate contro la cultura “woke”) che immediatamente fa il giro del web….

An October 22 article by Konstantin Kisin at The Free Press — a publication founded by Bari Weiss, a pony whose one trick is anti-“woke” culture war theatrics — immediately went viral. Its popularity on the Right is suggested by the fact that its title, “The Day the Delusions Died,” trended on Twitter the following…

The Woke Nightmare That Doesn’t End! It’s in commercials! It’s on storefronts! It’s on social media, on television shows and streaming platforms! We may not be able to define what “woke” is, but, dammit! Like any obscenity, we know it when we see it! They’re ramming it down our throats and shoving it up our…

The terms “woke” and “wokeism” have been ubiquitous on the right for the past year or so. Charlatans like Chris Rufo, James Lindsay, and Jordan Peterson regularly rail against this or that alleged manifestation of it, Robby Soave’s main shtick at Reason is recounting the latest incident of some paragon of scholarly reasonableness who was…