Novelist and journalist Walter Kirn discusses his 2006 novel "The Unbinding" and answers questions like:
Was Holden Caulfield a revolutionary?
What is the role of the outsider?
Can we escape the Spectacle? 

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Wyatt Verlen's essay in Sublation Magazine instructs the left to quit complaining and start critiquing. 
History gave Trump a right. As of the moment of writing, this right continues to be denied to him. That right is the right to be critiqued."

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Thomas Peermohamed Lambert discusses his novel, Shibboleth, with Nina Power and Douglas Lain in the Culture Corner.  What does it mean to go to Oxford? What is the future of the elites and elite education? Can you find love on campus?

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In this week's Spencer Leonard Hour, he discusses the meaning of the Civil War in relation to the struggle for socialism.

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Chris Cutrone discusses just what the aim of Trump's Tariffs might be. Will there be a new global order with the US still at the center? What does it mean to say that the United States is "FREE"? Is Trump just an idiot? 

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Benjamin Studebaker and Douglas Lain discuss Trump's Tariffs, the attacks of law firms such as Perkins Coie, and how the deportations of MS-13 gang members undermine Due Process. 

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William Stratford discusses the dialectics and the revisionism dispute. What lessons can we learn from it today, after the long defeat of the 20th century and the Millennial left? 

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Hamilton Craig is a Compact columnist and a doctoral student at CUNY researching farmers’ movements in the United States. In this episode of Diet Soap, he discusses his recent essay for Compact entitled "The Democratic Promise of Manifest Destiny" with Douglas Lain and tries to consider just how seriously to take Trump's effort to revitalize and reinvent our Manifest Destiny and discuss Cutrone's essay "The Future Belongs to America. So Should Greenland."

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"The Democratic Promise of Manifest Destiny" - Hamilton Craig
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-democratic-promise-of-manifest-destiny/

Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss the meaning of the term "neoliberalism" and the ignominious end of the previous regime of accumulation. Cutrone takes Studebaker to task over their differences in conceptualizing neoliberalism, highlighting contrasting interpretations of its historical and ideological implications.

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Benjamin Studebaker and Douglas Lain discuss the Platypus Affiliated Society convention and a few of the questions raised on our panels: 
 
What was neoliberalism?
Why does Society have Politics?

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