After publishing 'So You've Been Ideologically Discredited' last month, I had some more thoughts about political defeat. I don't think anywhere but COMPACT would let me relitigate political beef from 1672 like this 👇

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After Populism’s Long Defeat compactmag.com/article/after-…

If you're a COMPACT subscriber who enjoyed my piece on political defeat, you'll love my inexpensive short book, 'So You've Been Ideologically Discredited', available from Everyday Analysis

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Great to be back in COMPACT reflecting on political defeat, with reference to books by h nn h pr ct r, Vincent Bevins, Christopher Hill, and - surreptitiously - my own 'So You've Been Ideologically Discredited'.

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The Popular Show: we need a red/brown alliance !

*monkey's paw closes*

bro you're refreshing the bank of england news page while your girlfriend is losing the spark... bro you're worried about the wrong interest rate

'The cause was too good to have been fought for'

Today, for subscribers, it's James A. Smith when will you start standing up for yourself? on one of my favourite topics—political defeat compactmag.com/article/after-… 'an improved vocabulary for the experience of being ideologically discredited can only help us to fail better next time.'

'The rhetorical potential of defeat is neither disreputable in itself, nor does it belong only to one side. But only the right today seems adept at employing it.' compactmag.com/article/after-…

“Everyone is a populist when they think their side is about to win, and everyone risks collapsing into misanthropic anti-populism when it turns out otherwise.”
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If you're a COMPACT subscriber who enjoyed my piece on political defeat, you'll love my inexpensive short book, 'So You've Been Ideologically Discredited', available from Everyday Analysis

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'Everyone is a populist when they think their side is about to win, and everyone risks collapsing into misanthropic anti-populism when it turns out otherwise.'
when will you start standing up for yourself? in COMPACT
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'Books teaching political leaders how to win and wield power go back to the ancients. But what about losing?'

James A. Smith (when will you start standing up for yourself?) reviews books on political failure by h nn h pr ct r and Vincent Bevins and examines the demise of the 2010s left: compactmag.com/article/after-…

Populists of the left and the right confront resurgent elites and outright repression in the wake of the defeat of “the long 2016.”

The Marxist scholar James A. Smith offers lessons on how to deal with political defeat, exclusively for COMPACT compactmag.com/article/after-…

Is there comparative opinion polling on attitudes towards Israel and protest between - say - Britain, Germany, and France?

Talking endlessly about going to Cambridge but shaking my head the entire time so that people know I didn’t agree with it