What Bergoglio Means
The election of a Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio as Bishop of Rome and Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church has, inevitably, led to numerous requests for an assessment of what the election...
View ArticleHow Capital Persists – And How it Will Be Defeated
Reading competing analyses of the current situation one might initially imagine that we are all living in different worlds. Where some see a global convergence around the secular ideal of...
View ArticleFundamentalism is a Secularism
There are few polemical tactics more annoying than that of trying to demonstrate that one’s adversary in fact upholds the position which s/he most abhors. I would therefore like to begin this essay...
View ArticleThe Meaning of the Shutdown: Globalization, Populism, and their Discontents
What, precisely, is the broader significance of the US government shutdown? Is this just an unfortunate side effect of contingent political developments (Republican gerrymandering) which have...
View ArticleWhere Does Univocal Metaphysics Come From?
At the very core of the political theological position I have staked out is the judgment that a univocal metaphysics represents a fundamental and very dangerous error –the error which, I have argued,...
View ArticleIs Humanistic Secularism Based on a Univocal Metaphysics?
Central to my philosophical and theological work in recent years has been the distinction between a univocal and an analogical metaphysics. The first regards all beings as existing in the same way. If...
View ArticleSanctuary and Saeculum: The Desire to Be God
Humanity is the desire to be God (Sartre, Jean Paul. Being and Nothingness, 1943: 556). Being finite, we are aware of the infinite and seek it without limit. Being contingent, dependent on other beings...
View ArticleSaecular Hegemony
Humanity now stands at a very specific juncture with respect to the struggle between Sanctuary and the Saeculum. The stalemate between these two forces which dominated the great Silk Road Era from 200...
View ArticleRace, American Civil Religion, and the Endgame of Capital
This season of darkness and of lights is traditionally a time of taking stock, both spiritually and politically, of assessing where we are and asking where we are –and ought to be– going. And we cannot...
View ArticleClass, Mana, and Power: Organized Money
This is the first installment of a series exploring the conditions under which power is built and exercised over both the short and longue duree. Subsequent installments will look at the role of...
View ArticleThe real meaning of jihadism …
One of the most striking symptoms of our civilization’s current inability to understand itself –and to understand the broader humanity of which it is an expression– is the shock and dismay expressed...
View ArticleAgainst the New Atheism
One of the most remarkable features of the current conjuncture, especially in the United States, is the rise of the New Atheism as a potent ideological force, especially among the Millennial...
View ArticleSanctuary and Commons
Among the most important hermeneutic keys to understanding the current political situation in the United States is the recent study released by Anne Case and Angus Deaton showing that, beginning in...
View ArticleThe Crisis of the Republican Party and the Danger of Fascism
The 2016 US Presidential Primary Election cycle has witnessed a new stage in the disintegration of the Republican Party. Once the principal political vehicle for a visionary –if also deeply flawed–...
View ArticleSanctuary and Commons
The Current Situation Humanity stands at a critical juncture. The arc of development of the Saeculum –the metacivilizational project devoted to transcending finitude and contingency by means of...
View ArticleAgainst Maximalism
The surprising popularity of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination has led many to believe that a “political revolution” is possible on the basis of a...
View ArticleBeyond the Color Line: Rethinking Ethnicity, Empire, and Capital
This is not yet an analysis of the catastrophic election victory of Donald Trump in the US 2016 election. That will be forthcoming, hopefully within a week. But I think it represents an important...
View ArticleThe Eighteenth Brumaire of Donald Trump
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Caussidière for Danton,...
View ArticleAgainst Normalization
Eight years ago, reflecting on President Barack Obama’s first inaugural address, I wrote that : … this man Barack will not be our Moses or our Solon, our Ashoka or our Duke of Chou. Such spirits have...
View ArticleThe Dark Enlightenment: Accelerationism and Traditionalism on the Global Right
The November 2016 US General Election marks a new turn in the global political terrain. Long standing, deeply rooted –but hitherto largely hidden– political forces which call themselves the Dark...
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