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Elijah Emery on Christopher Lasch and the Contemporary Left, part 1

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The American Left and the Ukrainia Conflict

i think lash actually ends up being pretty weak yeah i i agree but i think that the thing i i like about it is that it's it's not focused on history of things you don't have a connection to where you can't use or have not actually influenced you. I wrote an essay which never got published anywhere right at the beginning of the ukraine conflict about how there's some commonalities between lash's examination of the american liberals and the russian revolution. The way in which liberalism now has addressed ukraine is to see it as a mirror image of its own condition. We use them as as moral signposts for things happening here in a way that is totally

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