Like many among the professional-class Left, Malcolm Harris advocates agroecology. But Matt Huber argues that the strategic question remains: how to recruit millions into a political program Leigh Phillips jokingly refers to as “drudgery for all”? damagemag.com/2025/11/12/wha…

Many commentators have greeted Amazon’s announcement of massive new corporate layoffs with doomsaying about AI job displacement. But a closer look at the data reveals typical labor-disciplining strategies, no robots necessary. jacobin.com/2025/11/amazon…

The Democratic Party still appears full of cackling liberal scolds fluent in DEI jargon, even though top Democrats themselves would like now to distance themselves from this image. Ryan Zickgraf on why the Democrats seem yoked to woke. damagemag.com/2025/11/17/can…

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No matter how hard she tried, Harris couldn’t outrun the meme version of herself: a cackling liberal scold fluent in DEI jargon, and the personification of every HR Zoom training you’ve ever pretended to pay attention to. Ryan Zickgraf in Damage Issue 5 damagemag.com/2025/11/17/can…

Shedeur Sanders is starting this week for the Browns. I wrote about his draft fall and how the marketization of college sports influenced his draft stock in Damage Magazine here: damagemag.com/2025/05/21/she…

The Shadow Party cast a long shadow that Democrats, all the way up to President Biden himself, had trouble casting off. Remember when Biden was once asked off the cuff how many genders there were, and he said, “At least three?” Ryan Zickgraf in Damage damagemag.com/2025/11/17/can…

"Somehow eternal life for the rich may be possible, but free buses or public grocery stores are fantastically utopian." Matt McManus on how the Right is increasingly shaped by postmodern culture. damagemag.com/2025/11/24/con…

Digital copy of my essay on postmodern conservatism is out with Damage Magazine damagemag.com/2025/11/24/con…

In a postmodern condition, where there is no alternative to capitalism, millions have turned to memed nostalgia as a source of agonistic meaning. Matt McManus in "Conservativism as Postmodernism" damagemag.com/2025/11/24/con…

What is "Dark Woke?" The Batman of identity politics rhetoric, says Ryan Zickgraf

From Trumpists like Rudy Giuliani declaring that “truth isn’t truth” to Jordan Peterson veering perilously close to “it depends on what your definition of ‘is’ is,” the Right is increasingly shaped by the parameters of postmodern culture. Matt McManus damagemag.com/2025/11/24/con…

Appeals to privacy are no more than a disguise for beliefs in permissibility, and they often allow us to evade hard questions about how to justify such beliefs. Ana María Cisneros on The Need for a Socialist Morality in Damage Issue 5 damagemag.com/2025/12/01/the…

enjoyed this by Matt Huber damagemag.com/2025/11/12/wha…

Leftists must offer an alternative moral picture, not just so that we arrive at the correct political positions, but also so we build a political program that is relatable to those with the instincts to correctly reject capitalism’s ideal of authenticity. damagemag.com/2025/12/01/the…