Archive - Max Jackson

HOT New Self-Help Trend: 19th Century German Philosophy

Or: Hegelian Freedom as Owning our Deeds

May 4 •

January 2025

December 2024

Mailbag: Lynching and Vigilante Justice

What differentiates Luigi Mangioni from Kyle Rittenhouse and Daniel Perry? From the KKK?

Dec 22, 2024 •

The Tyrannies of Abstractions

The seductive perils of seeing human beings as instances of categories

Dec 21, 2024 •

"Sin" is a synonym for "Finitude"

Even atheists have to deal with the consequences of not being God

Dec 16, 2024 •

The Violence We Carry

Lynching, then and now

Dec 14, 2024 •

Political violence is especially bad when done in your name

Against "Everything is violence except actual violence, which is fine"

Dec 8, 2024 •

Regime Change Is Built In To Liberalism

Deneen's critiques are incisive and also capable of being absorbed

Dec 3, 2024 •

November 2024

After Hyperpolitics

Or: the political is the personal

Nov 29, 2024 •

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