“The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy” by @ajawoods.bsky.social is a spry genealogy of our strange reality, which traces the conspiracy from Lyndon LaRouche through the New Right to the Tea Party.

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"The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy" describes the networks of right-wing activists that began to rely on the conspiracy more and more. It was obvious nonsense, but that didn’t matter. What was most important was that it provided a kind of Grand Unified Theory of conservative grievance.

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The winter issue of Dissent is live! I wrote an essay for them about Mamdani and the case for why the left should embrace bureaucracy and public service. dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

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Terrific essay about the need for and value of public administration. @resnikoff.bsky.social refutes critiques of bureaucracy by both Right AND LEFT. We need more and better bureaucracy not less. Here’s to public admin education and training! dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

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After MAGA, the left will need to be ready with a theory of how to rebuild the federal administrative state—not as it was before Trump, but as something better. Read @resnikoff.bsky.social on why the left needs bureaucrats: dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

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