Luke Kuchins: The george floyd protests are symptomatic of the post democrat character, in many ways, of the moment we're living through. He says that once it gets toward election time, it's like, oo k, let's corporatize this. And he argues that liberal capitalism is very adaptat kind of absorbing its critics and getting channelled into contradictthe radical aspirations of a few people who went out to change things. LZ: I don't think so. Has there been a single significant uno reform that’s come out of that? That energy has to go somewhere. It can't be removed from its roots unlike other slogans
In this Citations Needed Live Interview with Luke Savage from 3/22, we discuss his upcoming collection of essays, "The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History," the abandoned hopes of the Obama era, the rise of Trumpism and the inability—or unwillingness—of Liberalism to offer a moral and more just vision for the world.