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[...] trans-exclusionary feminism has inherited political lesbianism’s dread of desire’s ungovernability. The traditional subject of gay panic, be he a US senator or just a member of the House, is a subject menaced by his own politically compromising desires: to preserve himself, he projects these …

[...] These stories have perhaps less to do with What Really Happened than they do with what Fredric Jameson once called “the ‘emotion’ of great historiographic form”—that is, the satisfaction of synthesizing the messy empirical data of the past into an elegant historical arc in which everything th…

Having cast himself as an outsider and underdog during the campaign, Trump struggles with this new reality. He still tweets about the legitimacy of his election and about being attacked by a malicious press. Long after no woman in this country can get an abortion and the coastlines are flooded and …

But trolls also make a mistake: they believe there is truth in taboo thoughts because they appear taboo. When they see that their statements are seen as dangerous—that black people are stupid, bad, or unworthy, or that men are more persecuted than women—they confuse liberal society’s attempts to …

[...] There is a reason right-wing trolling is more effective than its left-wing equivalent: trolling that harnesses the power of taboo—the most ancient, retrograde, collectively unconscious stuff of sex, the family, the species—is more effective than trolling toward enlightenment. And to indulge a…