Activity

the triumphal liberal history of modern conflict, which consecrates itself by touting its defeat of totalitarianism, and elides anti-fascism in all of its guises by presenting it as, in one way or another, unitary with fascism

overcome cultural narcissism and reckon with the anomie of civil war

the sunny fables of irenic global uplift featured in Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature

the inchoate study of unsanctioned chaos bred by intrastate violence

meliorist apostles of peaceful order such as Steven Pinker