Thought for the Week:
Any theoretical formation with a self-defense mechanism that refashions those that disagree with it into a symptom of the problem it is diagnosing has most likely cross the line from theory into theology. Like Marxists who reflexively label any criticism as petty bourgeois or Lacanians anxious to read any pushback as the outcome of unconscious repression, there is no way to test it except on the terms that it has itself provided.
I listened to Know Your Enemy: Christopher Lasch’s Critique of Progress, with Chris Lehmann again this week. It was even better the second time through. (Lasch’s writing was a big influence when I was forming my view of the world in my twenties.)