semitone on ‘I promise that I will do my best’:
I read this post, after a long absence from reading the lrb blog, in my car while my two sons (eight and ten) played strenuous, interesting, complicat...
Eli Zaretsky on The Mass Psychology of Trumpism:
The Freudian concept of identification is helpful here. Identification is unconscious and is something quite different from imitation. "Willed ignoran...
Jeremy Harding on Who killed Maurice Audin?:
Who killed Mehdi Ben Barka in 1965? Good question. One of the best answers came from Stephen Smith, in Le Monde in 2001. Smith is an LRB contributor. ...
Eli Zaretsky on The Mass Psychology of Trumpism:
yes, excellent point, however, there are different ways to constitute a "volk." Trump's followers constitute a volk, and its basis is not the US "volk...
heinz suenker on The Mass Psychology of Trumpism:
thanks for the idea to bring adorno in - showing his contemporary relevance. I think what has to be added is his idea about the 'volksgemeinschaft' - ...
