The idea of a bama as a figure of progress becomes very shaky, because how do you define progress, and what does that mean? And i think a lot about that behind the closed doors. I remember in two thousand eight, watching this all play out, and like, the first thing obaba did after locking up the presidential nomination was speak at apec. So i want to talk about these ideological priors and these kind of assumptions about the end of history.
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.