Ruined resentments

Reivew of Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism

Matthew McManus ~ RP 2.08 (Autumn 2020), pp. 100–102 ~ Review

Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019). 264pp., £62.00hb., £22.00 pb., 978 0 23155 053 6 hb., 978 0 23119 385 6 pb. Wendy Brown has been one of the foremost critical theorists and political commentators on the left since the […]

Insurgent universality

Reivew of Asad Haider, Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump

Samir Gandesha ~ RP 2.04 (Spring 2019), pp. 89–94 ~ Review

Asad Haider, Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (London and New York: Verso, 2018). 144pp., £10.99 pb., 978 1 78663 376 In an editorial in the New York Times written ten days after the 2016 presidential election, Mark Lilla (Professor of Humanities at Columbia University) challenged the so-called ‘Whitelash’ thesis, arguing […]