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TRANSGENDER ACTIVIST LESLIE FEINBERG PROCLAIMED in a 1992 political pamphlet that the time for transgender liberation had come. Over twenty years later, popular media described the increasing visibility of transgender lifestyles as a “trans tipping point” or “trans moment.” However, upon further inspection, one discovers luminaries of the Enlightenment already expressed whatever “new” ideas have come to the fore, and better the first time around. While the number of writings grows beyond count, the new insights fall below the potential characterized by the moment of their conception. [Read More]

Bill Edmundson is a professor of law and philosophy at Georgia State University. He is also the author of John Rawls: Reticent Socialist. Ethan Linehan conducted the following interview over email correspondence during the month of September in 2018. Ethan Linehan: Please give a few brief biographical details about the life of John Rawls. When appropriate, situate his life details within the broader historical context (e.g. the 1960s and 1970s New Left scene, the philosophical trends that inspired him, etc. [Read More]

IT IS BY NOW WELL ESTABLISHED that millennials are not having sex. Indeed, recent studies have revealed that millennials derogate the emotions evoked in love and lust, which they refer to disparagingly as “catching feelings.”1 The widespread paranoia surrounding consent presumably only deepens such sentiments. Because victimhood has become the visa stamp of critical insight and political solidarity, women are encouraged to conform their experiences to those of a victim while sympathetic men are encouraged to counter-identify with perpetrators through the burden of a collective guilt. [Read More]

On July 21, 2018, Efraim Carlebach interviewed Lawrence Parker about his latest book, Communists and Labour – The National Left-Wing Movement 1925–1929. The book is available on lulu.com.1 What follows is an edited transcript of the interview.1 Efraim Carlebach: How did you come to write this book? ­­ Lawrence Parker: I wrote a book a while ago with a similar theme, a short pamphlet on the beginnings of Maoist organizations – or Marxist-Leninist revolutionary groups – in Britain, including The Leninist, which is still around in the shape of the CPGB/Weekly Worker. [Read More]