Love for the NRA and survivalism fits into an old pattern. I Start here. Adam Lanza can’t be accused or convicted of “unconscionable evil,” not in the court of public opinion and not by the criteria of moral philosophy. He wasn’t making a moral choice when he shot his mother in the face with her [...]
What happens when we refuse to answer leading questions like these, which contain conclusions that should be in contention? What happens when we stop looking for socialism in all the wrong places?
I I can see why Tim Barker thinks that my career as a contrarian is over. Here I am defending consumer culture—in his terms, “the culture of capitalism”—so how can I be speaking truth to power? As he knows, the power to which I have been speaking all these years is the left-liberal historiographical establishment, [...]
James Livingston teaches History at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. He is the author of Against Thrift: Why Consumer Culture is Good for the Economy, the Environment, and Your Soul (2011).
