Article of the Day, from Andrew Goodwin
This is very good writing starting with The Hateful 8. Economic theory with current events considered.
"Slavoj Žižek: The Cologne attacks were an obscene version of carnival"
Andy Aiken comments:
"So what if we conceive of the Cologne incident…as a carnivalesque rebellion of the underdogs?"
To dismiss what happened in Cologne as a droll little Rabelaisian episode is forgetting that the middle class they deride keeps the lights on at the universities. The Euro and US left intellectuals will be surprised at how swiftly they find themselves on the losing end of a cultural counterrevolution, how adamantly the return of Volkish horrors defies their browbeating.
But they have created the preconditions for this. The social sciences have become as detached from the tradition of free inquiry as University of Freiberg was in the 1930s. They have thrown away the weapons that could have fought it.