Since World War II, the U.S. made itself the legitimate guardian of freedom in the world. To Sheldon Wolin, this is the clear mark of a drift from an open “constitutional imaginary” to a dictatorial “power imaginary.”
War on the Palestinian Soul
A colonial power cannot survive without owning the narrative about land and people. By the same token, ethnic cleansing would be impossible if colonial settlers did not convince themselves that a native culture is a subculture that barely exists.
Design to Distribute
Conventional economic wisdom is that austerity and inequality are necessary pains of growth. Data show, on the contrary, that to benefit all people the economy must first be designed this way.
Make Oppression Backfire
“Making oppression backfire is a skill, sort of like jujitsu, that’s all about playing your opponents’ strongest card against them. Before you can do that, though, you need to understand exactly how oppression works.” (Srdja Popovic)
The Utopian Theory of Superpower: The Official Version
Promising “democracy, development, free markets, and free trade” to the world in the wake of 9/11, the U.S. administration unwittingly made the case that market fundamentalism contradicts democracy.