I. Introduction Here in America, we live in an age of mass binary partisanship enflamed by a growing constellation of digital tribes. Some are benign: destined to hunker down into an online ghetto and resign themselves to oblivion, sufficiently contented by the bonds of friendship. But many are fueled by the zeal…

Pt. 1: Those Who Perform I. Some time last year, a video surfaced online. A smartly dressed woman with short hair and glasses sat there in her car, talking to the video camera in her phone, which would then transmit her message to her audience of potentially anyone via social media. …

Note: I have never read any of Derrida’s work in the original French, and I don’t feel even the slightest bit of shame about it for reasons that will become clear if you care to read on. Nevertheless, this is a tainted paper, because I have read his work in…

Including discussion on the following topical issues and queries: The liberal historical supernarrative defined. In the future, historians will look back and say something stupid. The iconography of Uatu the Watcher. The Protestants take aim. The Illuminati set forth. Sorel mogs Jaurès. Gnostic Gaga. The historicists reign triumphant. How to…

Including discussion on the following topical issues and queries: how pretentious rhetoric has been used effectively as job security. How the internet has shaped its usage over time. The problem with the “motte and bailey” metaphor. How critical theory and pretentious language has contributed to “the successor ideology.” The problem…