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Issue 5: The Pre-Political

Horror as By-Product
Readings of the Holocaust as an advanced technological manifestation of anti-Semitism obscure its reality—a brutal, messy, and crude operation. What…
 • Damage Magazine and Benjamin Fife
Breaking the Hard Ground: Class Confidence From the Flint Sit-Downs to Today
The most famous union win in American labor history was made possible by structure building and collective experiences that generated class confidence.
 • Damage Magazine and Garrett Shishido Strain
How the New Deal Ran a Tight Ship, and Built Some Too
Liberals want to make government do big things again, while the Right disingenuously claims the mantle of government efficiency. With a capable and…
 • Damage Magazine and Bob Leighninger
Overmedicalization and the Crisis of Authority
Proliferating rates of mental health diagnoses reflect a breakdown of traditional forms of authority rather than an excess of medical authority.
 • Damage Magazine, George Hoare, and Amber M Trotter
The Need for a Socialist Morality
Ignoring moral debates has led the Left to implicitly privilege being authentic over being good. This is a conceptual and moral mistake, but it is also…
 • Damage Magazine and Ana María Cisneros
Conservativism as Postmodernism
The Right is increasingly shaped by the parameters of postmodern culture.
 • Damage Magazine and Matt McManus
Can the Democrats Escape the Shadow of Woke?
The Democratic Party still appears full of cackling liberal scolds fluent in DEI jargon, even though many would like to distance themselves from this…
 • Damage Magazine and Ryan Zickgraf
The Regression in Psychoanalysis’s “Social Turn”
The turn from clinical to social issues has led psychoanalysts no closer to solving social problems and further from working through the primary…
 • Damage Magazine, Christie Offenbacher, and Ricky
Between Moral and Political Suicide
Immigration is the toughest issue for the Left to solve. And the future depends on it.
 • Damage Magazine and Dustin "Dino" Guastella
On Learning (and Not Learning) from Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders restored economic populism to the heart of American progressive politics, but unfortunately, some on the left seem determined not to…
 • Damage Magazine and Jared Abbott
What is the Pre-Political?
For decades, it has been fashionable to blur the line between what is political and what is not. This hasn’t been a good thing for either side.
 • Damage Magazine and Benjamin Y. Fong
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