The Politics of Cultural Despair

It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what the Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence.   By CHRIS HEDGES Nov. 6   In the end, the election was about despair. Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialization. Despair […]