
V. S. Naipaul and the American Right
VS Naipaul’s career developed at a time when Western reactionary intellectuals could still be formidable, dynamic, and unpredictable.
Adrien Beauduin is currently researching a PhD on Polish and Czech politics at the Central European University’s department of gender studies.
VS Naipaul’s career developed at a time when Western reactionary intellectuals could still be formidable, dynamic, and unpredictable.
What makes this perennial sad story worthy of another reexamination?
Work in a capitalist society is a conflicted and contradictory phenomenon.
In the long run we are all dead, but not all at the same time.
We can await Ezra Klein’s downfall, but the future may not have shit to do with us either.