:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fdev.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F09%2Fontheabolitionofallpoliticalparties.jpg)
Party of One: Democracy, Political Parties, and Simone Weil
A side-by-side reading of a French philosopher and a pair of American political scientists....
Guy Patrick Cunningham
Guy Patrick Cunningham is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn, New York. His work has appeared in The Millions, Bookslut, and The Brooklyn Rail, among other publications. You can follow him on Twitter @GuysLibrary.
Articles
The Player Kings: On Shakespeare’s Henriad
The Henriad is William Shakespeare’s finest achievement as a political writer....
On Bureaucracy and the Left
A genuinely left-wing critique of bureaucracy is long overdue. But it's also a very difficult proposition....
Don’t Settle: The Journalist in the Shadow of the Commercial Web
A good journalist makes society more democratic....
Citizen Thiel
Peter Thiel’s neo-aristocratic technodemocracy....
The Art of Critique: Victor Serge’s “Midnight in the Century”
“Personalism” combines the radical libertarian belief in the importance of the individual with the communist belief in the importance of the entire community. Victor Serge was its greatest champion....
Aristocrats of “Merit”
Tyler Cowen’s "Average Is Over"...
Different Voices
Digital Cosmopolitanism and the Commercial Web...
Contemplation vs. Consumption: Making Sense of the Commercial Web
How does the commercial web shape our behavior online?...
Getting to “No”: Snowball’s Chance, Animal Farm, and “Exemplary Truth”
Animal Farm remains a valuable gateway into political satire, but the point of a gate is that eventually we need to pass through it....
The End Commands the Means: Victor Serge’s Memoirs of a Revolutionary
I STILL REMEMBER ZUCOTTI PARK in the fall of 2011. I was struck by the way the encampment seemed both very abstract — an open-ended protest without a conventional list of goals — and mundanely practical, as people dealt with distributing ...
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fdev.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F05%2Fhenryiv.jpg)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fdev.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F01%2FUtopia-of-Rules.png)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fdev.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F08%2FRenataAdlerSlider.jpg)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fdev.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F04%2Fzero-to-one.jpg)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fdev.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F07%2FThe-Peoples-Platform.jpg)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fdev.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F10%2Fanimal-farm-cover-image.jpeg)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fdev.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F07%2F1371849635.jpg)